Surge

Noun

 * 1)  The swell or heave of the sea. (FM 55-501).
 * 2) A sudden rush, flood or increase which is transient.
 * He felt a surge of excitement.
 * 1) A sudden electrical spike or increase of voltage and current.
 * A power surge
 * 1) The maximum amplitude of a vehicles' forward/backward oscillation

Verb

 * 1)  To rush, flood, or increase suddenly.
 * Toaster sales surged last year.
 * 1) To accelerate forwards, particularly suddenly.
 * A ship surges forwards, sways sideways and heaves up.
 * 1)  To slack off a line.

Adjectives for Surge
eternal; furious; relentless; toiling; fiery; sulphurous; knelling; rolling; volcanic; boiling; whispering; roaring; restless; broken; imperious.

Adverbs for Surge
confusedly; wildly; thunderously; turbulently; violently; relentlessly; sulphurously; volcanically; boilingly; roaringly; imperiously.

Thesaurus
Charybdis, access, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, addition, advance, affluence, afflux, affluxion, aggrandizement, amplification, anabasis, appreciation, arise, ascend, ascension, ascent, assemble, augmentation, awake the dead, ballooning, be poised, billow, blast, blast the ear, bloating, blow out, boom, boost, bore, break, breaker, breakers, broadening, buildup, bulge, bunch, bunch up, centrifugate, centrifuge, chop, choppiness, chopping sea, clamber, climb, climbing, clot, cluster, collect, comb, comber, come together, come up, concourse, confluence, conflux, congregate, converge, copulate, couple, course, crash, crescendo, crosscurrent, crowd, curl upwards, current, dash, date, deafen, defluxion, development, din, dirty water, dizzy round, downflow, downpour, drain, drain out, drift, driftage, eagre, ebb, ebb and flow, eddy, edema, elevation, empty, enlargement, escalade, exhaust, expansion, extension, fill the air, find vent, flock together, flood, flow, flow back, flow in, flow out, flow together, flowing, fluency, flush, flux, forgather, fountain, fullness, fuse, gain, gang around, gang up, gather, gather around, go up, gravity wave, greatening, ground swell, grow up, growth, gurge, gush, gush out, gyre, gyring up, heave, heavy sea, heavy swell, herd together, hike, hive, horde, huddle, increase, increment, inflation, inflow, intensity, issue, jet, jump, league, leap, levitate, levitation, lift, link, loom, lop, loudishness, loudness, maelstrom, make, mass, meet, merge, mill, mill run, millrace, mount, mounting, multiplication, muster, onrush, onward course, outflow, outpour, peak, peal, pirouette, play, popple, pour, pour out, productiveness, proliferation, pulsate, race, raise, rally, rally around, rat race, rattle the windows, rear, rear up, reel, regurgitate, rend the air, rend the ears, rendezvous, resound, riffle, ring, ripple, rise, rise and fall, rise up, rising, rock the sky, rocketing up, roll, roller, rough water, round, run, run out, rush, saltation, scend, sea, seethe, send, set, shooting up, sluice, sluice out, smash, snowballing, soaring, sonority, sonorousness, spate, spew, spew out, spin, spiral, spire, spit, split the eardrums, split the ears, spout, spout out, spray, spread, spring, spritz, spurt, spurtle, squirt, stand up, startle the echoes, stream, stun, surf, surge back, surge of sound, swarm, swarm up, sweep up, swell, swelling, swirl, takeoff, taking off, throng, thunder, tidal bore, tidal wave, tide, tide wave, toss, tower, trend, trough, tsunami, tumescence, turn, twirl, undercurrent, undertow, undulate, undulation, unite, up, upclimb, upcoming, updraft, upgang, upgo, upgoing, upgrade, upgrow, upgrowth, upheave, uphill, upleap, uplift, upping, uprisal, uprise, uprising, uprush, upshoot, upslope, upspin, upstream, upsurge, upsurgence, upswarm, upsweep, upswing, uptrend, upturn, upwind, vault, volume, vomit, vomit forth, vomit out, vortex, water flow, water wave, wave, wavelet, waxing, well, well out, wheel, whirl, whirligig, whirlpool, whirlwind, white horses, whitecaps, widening, zooming

Etymology
< surgen: < possibly from  sourgir: <  surgir: < Old Catalan surgir <  surgere:, contr. of surrigere:, subrigere: < sub: + regere:; see regent.

Pronunciation

 * (US) or (UK)
 * (US) or /s3:dZ/ (UK)
 * (US) or (UK)
 * (US) or /s3:dZ/ (UK)

Synonyms

 * inrush

Derived terms

 * countersurge
 * surgeless

Related terms

 * source

Noun

 * Finnish: ,
 * Russian:


 * Spanish:


 * Afrikaans: stuwing
 * Finnish:
 * German:, , ,


 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:


 * Finnish: jännitepiikki
 * Japanese: サージ (sāji)


 * Polish: skok napięcia

Verb

 * Galician:

Anagrams

 * grues
 * urges