flood tide

noun

1. the inflow of the tide; rising tide.

flood tide

1. The period between low tide and high tide, during which water flows toward the shore.
2. Compare ebb tideSee more at tide

Word History and Origins

Origin of flood tide¹

First recorded in 1710–20

Example Sentences

Gen. Swing said that “hordes of aliens” were crossing the Mexican border, calling it an “alarming, ever-increasing, flood tide.” of migrants at the border.

From Salon

These enclaves, once the backbone of Ukraine’s agricultural eastern steppe, were reduced to ruin as the war passed over them like a flood tide.

From New York Times

That tree-trunk neck, snout and antler constellation bobbing defiantly toward the sky, nudged along by a flood tide, miles falling behind him as the westbound bluffs of Whidbey Island’s Strawberry Point drew closer with each paddle of his mighty cloven hooves.

From Seattle Times

The next morning, a flood tide of parents and children washed over the kids’ area, with families backed up out the door.

From New York Times

These are resolutely prosaic works; where Whitman saw “River and sunset and scallop-edg’d waves of flood tide,” not to mention crowds of hopeful immigrants, Hopper sees infrastructure.

From New York Times