Another word for wave
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Verb
To move to and fro vigorously and usually repeatedly
See also:To move or cause to move about while being fixed at one edge
See also:To move (one's arms or wings, for example) up and down
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Another word for wave
Noun
A wall of water
A movement suggestive of a wave
Undulating movement
Verb
To flutter
Antonyms:To give an alternating movement
To move back and forth
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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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