Tsunami

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tidal wave \Tid"al wave\, n.
     1. an unusually high wave from the sea, sometimes reaching
        far inland and causing great destruction, and usually
        caused by some event, such as an earthquake, far from the
        shore. In Japan, such a wave is called a {tsunami}.
        [PJC]


  
     2. [fig.] an unusually large quantity of items or events
        requiring attention and causing strain on the capacity to
        handle them; as, a tidal wave of orders for a new product;
        a tidal wave of tourists.
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  tsunami
       n : a huge destructive wave (especially one caused by an
           earthquake) [syn: {tidal wave}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  56 Moby Thesaurus words for "tsunami":
     apoplexy, billow, bore, breakers, breakup, cataclysm, chop,
     choppiness, chopping sea, climax, comb, comber, convulsion,
     diastrophism, dirty water, disaster, eagre, fit, gravity wave,
     ground swell, heave, heavy sea, heavy swell, lift, lop, overthrow,
     paroxysm, peak, popple, quake, riffle, ripple, rise, roll, roller,
     rough water, scend, sea, send, spasm, stroke, surf, surge, swell,
     temblor, tidal bore, tidal wave, tide wave, trough, undulation,
     upheaval, water wave, wave, wavelet, white horses, whitecaps