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tidal wave   (TTS Sound)

The noun tidal wave has 3 senses

• tidal wave -- (an overwhelming manifestation of some emotion or phenomenon; "a tidal wave of nausea"; "the flood of letters hit him with the force of a tidal wave"; "a tidal wave of crime")


• tidal wave -- (an unusual (and often destructive) rise of water along the seashore caused by a storm or a combination of wind and high tide)


• tidal wave -- (a wave resulting from the periodic flow of the tides that is caused by the gravitational attraction of the moon and sun)