tsunami

3 definitions found

tsunami - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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]

tsunami - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  tsunami
      n 1: a cataclysm resulting from a destructive sea wave caused by
           an earthquake or volcanic eruption; "a colossal tsunami
           destroyed the Minoan civilization in minutes"

tsunami - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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