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

1 sense of rising tide

Sense 1
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)