surge

1. 1.

   a sudden forceful flow

   Synonymsrushspateupsurge

   Broaderflow

   Narrowerdebris surgeonrush
2. 2.

   a sudden or abrupt strong increase

   “stimulated a surge of speculation”

   “an upsurge of emotion”

   “an upsurge in violent crime”

   Synonymsupsurge

   Broaderincrease
3. 3.

   a large sea wave

   Synonymsbillow

   Broaderwave

Other forms of surge

plural

surges·

past tense

surged·

present participle

surging·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about surge

What does surge mean?

surge means "rise and move, as in waves or billows". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in surge?

surge has 1 syllable: surge. In IPA it is /ˈsɝdʒ/.

What is another word for surge?

Close synonyms include billow, heave, soar, soar up, soar upwards. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is surge a common word?

surge is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with surge?

2 words rhyme with surge. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.