SURGING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does surging mean? 

• SURGING (adjective)
  The adjective SURGING has 1 sense:

1. characterized by great swelling waves or surges

  Familiarity information: SURGING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SURGING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Characterized by great swelling waves or surges

Synonyms:

billowing; billowy; surging

Context example:

surging waves

Similar:

stormy ((especially of weather) affected or characterized by storms or commotion)

 Context examples 

The force with which they struggled was vividly impressed on me; for I was knocked down by their surging bodies and badly bruised.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The Mariposa was now in the northeast trades, and this wine of wind, surging against him, irritated him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I half believed her; for I felt indeed only bad feelings surging in my breast.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I could almost hear the beating of my own heart; and the blood surging through my temples sounded like blows from a hammer.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The rest of the pack was now up and surging upon him, and a throwing of firebrands right and left was necessary to drive them back to a respectful distance.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Buck rushed at the splintering wood, sinking his teeth into it, surging and wrestling with it.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The last few years were good in terms of population growth in Italy, with PGR surging to 0.99% in both 2003 and 2004, falling back to 0.49% in 2005 and rising again in 2006-2007, but the turning point was 2002-2003, when official figures increased nine times, surging from 0.06% at 01.01.2002 to 0.57% at 01.01.2003.

(Is the Global Crisis Triggering Basic Instincts?, BOGDAN FLORIN PAUL)

Sixty or seventy of them, large and small, smooth and shaggy—deer-hound, boar-hound, blood-hound, wolf-hound, mastiff, alaun, talbot, lurcher, terrier, spaniel—snapping, yelling and whining, with score of lolling tongues and waving tails, came surging down the narrow lane which leads from the Twynham kennels to the bank of Avon.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

What of his joy, the great love in him, ever surging and struggling to express itself, succeeded in finding a new mode of expression.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The strength that had always poured out from him to her was now flowering in his impassioned voice, his flashing eyes, and the vigor of life and intellect surging in him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)