Synonyms of the word

surge

• n. A sudden transient rush, flood or increase.
• n. The maximum amplitude of a vehicle's forward/backward oscillation.
• n. (electricity) A sudden electrical spike or increase of voltage and current.
• n. (nautical) The swell or heave of the sea. (FM 55-501).
• n. (obsolete) A spring; a fountain.
• n. The tapered part of a windlass barrel or a capstan, upon which the cable surges, or slips.
• v. (intransitive) To rush, flood, or increase suddenly.
• v. To accelerate forwards, particularly suddenly.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To slack off a line.

ameliorate

• v. (transitive) To make better, or improve, something perceived to be in a negative condition.

arise

• v. To come up from a lower to a higher position.
• v. To come up from one's bed or place of repose; to get up.
• v. To spring up; to come into action, being, or notice; to become operative, sensible, or visible; to begin…

better

• adj. comparative form of good: more good.
• adj. comparative form of well: more well.
• adv. comparative form of well: more well.
• adv. More, in reference to value, distance, time, etc.
• n. An entity, usually animate, deemed superior to another; one who has a claim to precedence; a superior.
• v. (transitive) To improve.
• v. (intransitive) To become better; to improve.
• v. (transitive) To surpass in excellence; to exceed; to excel.
• v. (transitive) To give advantage to; to support; to advance the interest of.
• v. (colloquial) Had better.
• n. Alternative spelling of bettor.

billow

• n. A large wave, swell, surge, or undulating mass of something, such as water, smoke, fabric or sound.
• v. To surge or roll in billows.
• v. To swell out or bulge.

course

• n. A sequence of events.
• n. A path that something or someone moves along.
• n. (nautical) The lowest square sail in a fully rigged mast, often named according to the mast.
• n. (in the plural, courses, obsolete, euphemistic) Menses.
• n. A row or file of objects.
• n. (music) A string on a lute.
• n. (music) A pair of strings played together in some musical instruments, like the vihuela.
• v. To run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood).
• v. To run through or over.
• v. To pursue by tracking or estimating the course taken by one's prey; to follow or chase after.
• v. To cause to chase after or pursue game.
• adv. (colloquial) Alternative form of of course.

feed

• v. (transitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat.
• v. (intransitive) To eat (usually of animals).
• v. (transitive) To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
• v. (transitive) To give to a machine to be processed.
• v. (figuratively) To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
• v. To supply with something.
• v. To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.
• v. (sports, transitive) To pass to.
• v. (phonology, of a phonological rule) To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply.
• n. (uncountable) Food given to (especially herbivorous) animals.
• n. Something supplied continuously.
• n. The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.
• n. (countable) A gathering to eat, especially in quantity.
• n. (Internet) Encapsulated online content, such as news or a blog, that can be subscribed to.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of fee.

flow

• n. A movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts.
• n. The movement of a real or figurative fluid.
• n. (mathematics) A formalization of the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid, as a group action of…
• n. The rising movement of the tide.
• n. Smoothness or continuity.
• n. The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement.
• n. (psychology) A mental state characterized by concentration, focus and enjoyment of a given task.
• n. The emission of blood during menstruation.
• n. (rap music slang) The ability to skilfully rap along to a beat.
• v. (intransitive) To move as a fluid from one position to another.
• v. (intransitive) To proceed; to issue forth.
• v. (intransitive) To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
• v. (intransitive) To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.
• v. (intransitive) To hang loosely and wave.
• v. (intransitive) To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb.
• v. (transitive, computing) To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated…
• v. (transitive) To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
• v. (transitive) To cover with varnish.
• v. (intransitive) To discharge excessive blood from the uterus.

flowing

• v. present participle of flow.
• n. The action of the verb to flow.
• adj. Tending to flow.
• adj. Moving, proceeding or shaped smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.

heave

• v. (transitive) To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).
• v. (transitive) To throw, cast.
• v. (intransitive) To rise and fall.
• v. (transitive) To utter with effort.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To pull up with a rope or cable.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To lift (generally); to raise, or cause to move upwards (particularly in ships or…
• v. (intransitive) To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
• v. (transitive, mining, geology) To displace (a vein, stratum).
• v. (transitive, now rare) To cause to swell or rise, especially in repeated exertions.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, nautical) To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.
• v. (intransitive) To retch, to make an effort to vomit; to vomit.
• v. (intransitive) To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
• n. An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy.
• n. An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves,…
• n. A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
• n. (nautical) The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time…

improve

• v. (transitive) To make (something) better; to increase the value or productivity (of something).
• v. (intransitive) To become better.
• v. (obsolete) To disprove or make void; to refute.
• v. (obsolete) To disapprove of; to find fault with; to reprove; to censure.
• v. (dated) To use or employ to good purpose; to turn to profitable account.

increase

• v. (intransitive) (of a quantity) To become larger.
• v. (transitive) To make (a quantity) larger.
• v. To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
• v. (astronomy, intransitive) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax.
• n. An amount by which a quantity is increased.
• n. For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger.
• n. (knitting) The creation of one or more new stitches; see Increase (knitting).

inflate

• v. (transitive) To enlarge an object by pushing air (or a gas) into it; to raise or expand abnormally.
• v. (intransitive) To enlarge by filling with air (or a gas).
• v. (figuratively) To swell; to puff up.
• v. (transitive, computing) To decompress (data) that was previously deflated.

lift

• n. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Air.
• n. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To raise or rise.
• v. (transitive, slang) To steal. (for this sense Cleasby suggests perhaps a relation to the root of Gothic…
• v. (transitive) To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.).
• v. (transitive) to cause to move upwards.
• v. (informal, intransitive) To lift weights; to weight-lift.
• v. To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
• v. To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.
• v. (obsolete) To bear; to support.
• v. To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
• v. (computing, programming) To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.
• n. An act of lifting or raising.
• n. The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.
• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between…
• n. An upward force, such as the force that keeps aircraft aloft.
• n. (measurement) the difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated…
• n. (historical slang) A thief.
• n. (dance) The lifting of a dance partner into the air.
• n. Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
• n. an improvement in mood.
• n. The space or distance through which anything is lifted.
• n. A rise; a degree of elevation.
• n. A lift gate.
• n. (nautical) A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or…
• n. (engineering) One of the steps of a cone pulley.
• n. (shoemaking) A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.
• n. (horology) That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.

meliorate

• v. (transitive) To make better, to improve; to heal or solve a problem.

rise

• v. (intransitive) To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
• v. (intransitive) To increase in value or standing.
• v. To begin; to develop.
• v. (transitive) To go up; to ascend; to climb.
• v. (transitive) To cause to go up or ascend.
• v. (obsolete) To retire; to give up a siege.
• v. To come; to offer itself.
• v. (printing, dated) To be lifted, or capable of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any…
• n. The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
• n. The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
• n. (chiefly Britain) An increase (in a quantity, price, etc).
• n. The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
• n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia) An increase in someone's pay rate; a raise (US).
• n. (Sussex) A small hill; used chiefly in place names.
• n. An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it;…
• n. (informal) An angry reaction.
• n. Alternative form of rice (“twig”).

run

• v. (vertebrates) To move swiftly.
• v. (fluids) To flow.
• v. (nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
• v. (social) To carry out an activity.
• v. To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.
• v. (transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
• v. To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
• v. (copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
• v. (transitive) To cost a large amount of money.
• v. (intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
• v. To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
• v. To cause to enter; to thrust.
• v. To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
• v. To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
• v. To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
• v. To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
• v. To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
• v. To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series…
• v. To control or have precedence in a card game.
• v. To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
• v. (archaic) To be popularly known; to be generally received.
• v. To have growth or development.
• v. To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
• v. To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in…
• v. (golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching…
• v. (video games, rare) To speedrun.
• n. Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
• n. Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily by foot); dash or errand, trip.
• n. A pleasure trip.
• n. Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
• n. Migration (of fish).
• n. A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
• n. (skiing, bobsledding) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
• n. A (regular) trip or route.
• n. The route taken while running or skiing.
• n. The distance sailed by a ship.
• n. A voyage.
• n. An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand) Rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
• n. State of being current; currency; popularity.
• n. A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.
• n. (card games) A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
• n. (music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
• n. A trial.
• n. A flow of liquid; a leak.
• n. (chiefly eastern Midland US, especially Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) A small creek or part thereof…
• n. A production quantity (such as in a factory).
• n. The length of a showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.
• n. A quick pace, faster than a walk.
• n. A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great…
• n. Any sudden large demand for something.
• n. The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
• n. The horizontal length of a set of stairs.
• n. A standard or unexceptional group or category.
• n. (baseball) A score (point scored) by a runner making it around all the bases and over home plate.
• n. (cricket) A point scored.
• n. (American football) A gain of a (specified) distance; a running play.
• n. Unrestricted use of.
• n. A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
• n. (nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
• n. (construction) Horizontal dimension of a slope.
• n. (mining) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by licence of the proprietor…
• n. A pair or set of millstones.
• n. (video games) A playthrough.
• n. (slang) A period of extended (usually daily) drug use.
• n. (golf) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.
• n. (golf) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
• n. (video games, rare) A speedrun.
• adj. In a liquid state; melted or molten.
• adj. Cast in a mould.
• adj. Exhausted; depleted (especially with "down" or "out").
• adj. (of a fish) Travelled, migrated; having made a migration or a spawning run.

rush

• n. Any of several stiff plants of the genus Juncus, or the family Juncaceae, having hollow or pithy stems…
• n. The stem of such plants used in making baskets, mats, the seats of chairs, etc.
• n. The merest trifle; a straw.
• n. A sudden forward motion.
• n. A surge.
• n. General haste.
• n. A rapid, noisy flow.
• n. (military) A sudden attack; an onslaught.
• n. (contact sports) The act of running at another player to block or disrupt play.
• n. (American football, dated) A rusher; a lineman.
• n. A sudden, brief exhilaration, for instance the pleasurable sensation produced by a stimulant.
• n. (US, figuratively) A regulated period of recruitment in fraternities and sororities.
• n. (US, dated, college slang) A perfect recitation.
• n. (croquet) A roquet in which the object ball is sent to a particular location on the lawn.
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To hurry; to perform a task with great haste.
• v. (intransitive) To flow or move forward rapidly or noisily.
• v. (intransitive, soccer) To dribble rapidly.
• v. (transitive or intransitive, contact sports) To run directly at another player in order to block or disrupt…
• v. (transitive) To cause to move or act with unusual haste.
• v. (intransitive, military) To make a swift or sudden attack.
• v. (military) To swiftly attach to without warning.
• v. (transitive or intransitive, US, college) To attempt to join a fraternity or sorority; to undergo hazing…
• v. (transitive) To transport or carry quickly.
• v. (transitive or intransitive, croquet) To roquet an object ball to a particular location on the lawn.
• v. (US, slang, dated) To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error.
• adj. Performed with, or requiring urgency or great haste, or done under pressure.

scend

• n. The rising motion of water as a wave passes; a surge.

soar

• v. to fly aloft with little effort, as a bird.
• v. to mount upward on wings, or as on wings.
• v. to remain aloft by means of a glider or other unpowered aircraft.
• v. to rise, especially rapidly or unusually high.
• v. (figuratively) To rise in thought, spirits, or imagination; to be exalted in mood.
• n. The act of soaring.
• n. An upward flight.

spate

• n. A river flood; an overflow or inundation.
• n. A sudden rush or increase.

step-up

• adj. That increases in stages.
• adj. (of a transformer etc) That increases a voltage.

tide

• n. The periodic change of the sea level, particularly when caused by the gravitational influence of the sun…
• n. A stream, current or flood.
• n. (chronology, obsolete, except in liturgy) Time, notably anniversary, period or season linked to an ecclesiastical…
• n. (regional, archaic) A time.
• n. (regional, archaic) A point or period of time identified or described by a qualifier (found in compounds).
• n. (mining) The period of twelve hours.
• n. Something which changes like the tides of the sea.
• n. Tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current.
• n. (obsolete) Violent confluence.
• v. (transitive) To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.
• v. (intransitive) To pour a tide or flood.
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring…
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To happen, occur.

uprise

• v. (archaic) To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon.
• v. (archaic) To have an upward direction or inclination.
• v. To rebel or revolt; to take part in an uprising.
• n. The act of rising; appearance above the horizon; rising.

upsurge

• n. a sudden strong rise or flow.
• v. (intransitive) to surge up, or to become stronger or greater.

wave

• v. (intransitive) To move back and forth repeatedly.
• v. (intransitive) To move one’s hand back and forth (generally above the head) in greeting or departure.
• v. (transitive, metonymically) To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion,…
• v. (intransitive) To have an undulating or wavy form.
• v. (transitive) To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.
• v. (transitive) To produce waves to the hair.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To swing and miss at a pitch.
• v. (transitive) To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.
• v. (transitive, metonymically) To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state.
• v. (intransitive, ergative) To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
• n. A moving disturbance in the level of a body of water; an undulation.
• n. (physics) A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.
• n. A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.
• n. (figuratively) A sudden unusually large amount of something that is temporarily experienced.
• n. A sideway movement of the hand(s).
• n. A group activity in a crowd imitating a wave going through water, where people in successive parts of…
• v. Obsolete spelling of waive.

zoom

• n. a humming noise from something moving very fast.
• n. a quick ascent.
• n. a big increase.
• n. an augmentation of a view by varying the focal length of a lens.
• v. to move fast with a humming noise.
• v. to fly an airplane straight up.
• v. to move rapidly.
• v. to go up sharply.
• v. to change the focal length of a zoom lens.
• v. (used with in or out) to manipulate a display so as to magnify or shrink it.