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"sense": "large and sudden rise and fall in the tide",
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"ref": "1961 January, “Talking of Trains: Flooding at Lewes”, in Trains Illustrated, page 5",
"text": "During the day conditions worsened quickly—for example, a 2-6-0 on the Uckfield line suddenly encountered flood water high enough to enter its ashpan and extinguish its fire—until lock gates up-river at Barcombe gave way and a tidal wave rolled down the valley meeting head-on a spring tide rolling up from the coast.",
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"ref": "2003, Michael Moore, chapter 3, in Dude, Where’s My Country",
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},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "figurative: sudden, powerful surge",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "flodvåg"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "archaic: ocean wave",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "golf"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "archaic: ocean wave",
"word": "aalto"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "okeaníčeskaja volná",
"sense": "archaic: ocean wave",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "океани́ческая волна́"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "oceanography: crest of ocean water resulting from tidal forces",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "golf"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "oceanography: crest of ocean water resulting from tidal forces",
"word": "vuorovesiaalto"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "chōha",
"sense": "oceanography: crest of ocean water resulting from tidal forces",
"word": "潮波"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "oceanography: crest of ocean water resulting from tidal forces",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tidevannsbølge"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"tidal wave"
],
"word": "tidal wave"
}
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