Antonyms of noun flood_tide

1 of 2 senses of flood tide

Sense 2
flood tide, flood, rising tide -- (the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide); "a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune" -Shakespeare)
       Antonym of ebbtide (Sense 1)
      => ebbtide -- (the tide while water is flowing out)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun flood_tide

2 senses of flood tide

Sense 1
climax, flood tide -- (the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding; "the climax of the artist's career"; "in the flood tide of his success")
       => juncture, occasion -- (an event that occurs at a critical time; "at such junctures he always had an impulse to leave"; "it was needed only on special occasions")

Sense 2
flood tide, flood, rising tide -- (the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide); "a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune" -Shakespeare)
       => tide -- (the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon)

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