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flood tide in WordNet English dictionary
noun- the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding
"the climax of the artist's career"; "in the flood tide of his success"
climax flood 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
flood tide flood rising tide
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flood tide in English Wiktionary
- (noun) the period between low tide and the next high tide in which the sea is rising
- (noun) (context/by extension) the highest point of something; a climax
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