flood tide

American  

noun

1. the inflow of the tide; rising tide.

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flood tide Scientific  

1. The period between low tide and high tide, during which water flows toward the shore.

2. Compare ebb tide See more at tide

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Etymology

Origin of flood tide

First recorded in 1710–20

Example Sentences

These enclaves, once the backbone of Ukraine’s agricultural eastern steppe, were reduced to ruin as the war passed over them like a flood tide.

From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2023

At Belleau Wood, they went up against a professional German army equipped with machine guns and heavy artillery, at the flood tide of a breakthrough near Paris that seemed about to end the war.

From Washington Post • May 31, 2018

At these locations of extreme tidal range, a person who ventures out onto the seafloor exposed during ebb tide may not be able to outrun the advancing water during flood tide.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

Shinohara Ushio, a Japanese artist, responded to the flood tide of American products with more humour than outrage.

From Economist • Mar. 23, 2016

The silvers were running in immense schools, they said, mostly on the flood tide.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson