Wave synonyms
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Part of speech:
A popular revolt that attempts to overthrow a government or its policies; an insurgency or insurrection.
A surge of emotion:
A continuous movement or circulation:
The act of crushing or the pressure involved in crushing:
Something, such as a curl of hair, that coils, twists, or whirls.
Any large number of social insects moving in a group
comber
A person or thing that combs, as wool, flax, etc.
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In fluid mechanics, a jump in the level of moving water, generally propagating in the opposite direction to the current. Strong ocean tides can cause bores to propagate up rivers.
An exercise, typically done with weights, in which an extended arm is flexed, bringing the hand back toward the shoulder, or an extended leg is flexed, bringing the foot back toward the buttock
Fly means to move through the air, often with wings.
To move rhythmically usually to music, using prescribed or improvised steps and gestures.
To swirl or agitate (a liquid) in a glass or in the mouth with a swishing sound.
Tremble means to shake involuntarily, often out of fear or because you are cold.
To cause to move with a spinning motion:
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To signal or summon, as by nodding or waving.
raise the arm
To give an alternating movement
A wave that breaks into foam against a shore or reef
The definition of a ripple is a small wave along the surface of water, a gentle rising and fall of sound throughout a group, or a special feeling that goes through you.
A cylinder of wire mesh, foam rubber, or other material around which a strand of hair is wound to produce a soft curl or wave.
A pulmonary disease of horses that is characterized by respiratory irregularities, such as coughing, and is noticeable especially after exercise or in cold weather.
An overwhelming manifestation; a flood:
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An increase in size, amount, extent, degree, etc.
A large quantity of people or things resembling an attack.
A flow of water in a channel or bed, as a brook, rivulet, or small river.
come-and-go
A movement suggestive of a wave
The velocity of a current of water
line after line
A movement suggestive of a wave
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Undulating movement
(Electrical) a length of wire wound around the core of an electrical transformer
A roll of postage stamps for use in a dispenser or vending machine; also, a stamp from such a roll
A winning streak of continuing luck, especially at gambling (especially in the phrase on a roll).
A segment of film or magnetic tape joined end to end to form a continuous strip for endless repetition in mixing or dubbing sound
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The act or process of swinging
The maximum amplitude of a vehicle's lateral motion
Spring is an elastic or bouncing ability or the season between winter and summer.
A motion or sound that ripples.
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One of the convex folds of the surface of the brain.
A portion, side trip, or episode in a longer journey.
wavy line
A line suggestive of a wave
An unexpected change in a process or a departure from a pattern, often producing a distortion or perversion:
A fancy twisting or curling shape made from a series of concentric circles.
To beat, to throb, to flash.
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To fluctuate is defined as to change in amount or rise and fall.
To change back and forth from one condition or situation to another:
rock (related)
To excite or cause strong feeling in, as by playing rock music.
To put into the water; launch:
To engage in the sport of surfing
Flap is defined as to wave arms or wings up and down.
straight (related)
In a straight line or direction; unswervingly
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A large wave; great swell of water
A projecting ridge, as along a bone
(Electronics) An electron tube.
whitecap
Any of several birds having a white patch on the head
A flowing in; inflow, as of a liquid, gas, etc.
(Sports) A rapid advance of the puck toward the opponent's goal in ice hockey.
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(Intransitive) To break forth
A quirk; peculiarity
To indicate by making a gesture; signal:
To indicate or characterize accurately in advance; predict:
To cause an effect in (a cell) by the release of a chemical, such as a neurotransmitter or hormone.
To address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes; to salute; to hail; to welcome; to accost with friendship; to pay respects or compliments to, either personally or through the intervention of another, or by writing or token.
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return a greeting
To give an alternating movement
To name; to designate; to call.
To move unsteadily or haltingly; stumble:
(Physics) To vary between alternate extremes, usually within a definable period of time.
(Intransitive) To sway unsteadily from one side to the other; oscillate.
To give off (light or sound) by vibration
To cause (something fastened or held at one end) to move rapidly and repeatedly back and forth, from side to side, or up and down
To move (an attached part, for example) with short, quick motions:
(Obs.) To get by cheating, robbing, tricking, etc.
To turn or be turned from a straight line or from some direction or position
Wobble is defined as to move or cause to move in an unsteady way, to have your voice quiver, or to be unable to commit to a course of action.
To feel dizzy:
To utter or sing in a trilling voice.
To shake with a tremulous motion; tremble
swing from side to side
To move back and forth
To beat with excessive rapidity; throb.
move to and fro
To move back and forth
To afford a recovery of breath:
To fix at a given amount:
To put (e.g. a sheet of paper) on display, using a pin.
(Intransitive) Arrive by vehicle, usually by car
droop (antonym)
To bend or hang downward:
fall (antonym)
(--- Theology) To lose primordial innocence and happiness. Used of humanity as a result of the Fall.
hang listless (antonym)
To flutter
To wave or flourish (something, often a weapon) in a menacing, defiant, or excited way.
To curve is defined as to move or follow in a smooth bend.
To cover or submerge with water; inundate:
To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive:
To express with a gesture or gestures
To mark or be marked with a ridge or ridges
A region of water within an ocean and partly enclosed by land, such as the North Sea.
To clean, empty, or straighten by short, quick movements
A very large ocean wave that is caused by an underwater earthquake or volcanic eruption and often causes extreme destruction when it strikes land. Tsunamis can have heights of up to 30 m (98 ft) and reach speeds of 950 km (589 mi) per hour. They are characterized by long wavelengths of up to 200 km (124 mi) and long periods, usually between 10 and 60 minutes.
To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion:
A rapid oscillation of a particle, particles, or elastic solid or surface, back and forth across a central position.
To waft is defined as to cause something to move smoothly through air or over water.
To drink water, as an animal.
To move or fall in a manner suggestive of tremulous flight:
To shape or break by repeated blows; forge:
In certain poker games, to have attained (a hand) as a result of the first three community cards that are dealt face up at the same time:
To pass quickly across, as when searching:
repetition (related)
To petition again.
express (related)
To set forth in words; state:
longitudinal wave transverse wave wave function (related)
A disturbance, oscillation, or vibration, either of a medium and moving through that medium (such as water and sound waves), or of some quantity with different values at different points in space, moving through space (such as electromagnetic waves or a quantum mechanical wave described by the wave function).
Repeated moving of arms or hands to signal.
wafture
Something that is wafted.
An undulating motion, as of a snake
moving ridge
one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water)
vortex (related)
longitudinal wave (related)
squall (related)
swirling (related)
shock-wave (related)
jet-like (related)
cloud (related)
turbulence (related)
inertia-gravity (related)
anti-sunward (related)
waves (related)
To whip or beat with or as with a switch
Synonym Study
- Billow is a somewhat poetic or rhetorical term for a great, heaving ocean wave
- Breaker is applied to such a wave when it breaks, or is about to break, into foam upon the shore or upon rocks
- Roller is applied to any of the large, heavy, swelling waves that roll in to the shore, as during a storm
- Ripple is used of the smallest kind of wave, such as that caused by a breeze ruffling the surface of water
- Wave is the general word for a curving ridge or swell in the surface of the ocean or other body of water
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