"afterwave" meaning in English

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          "text": "1801, Robert Charles Dallas (translator), The Natural History of Volcanoes by the Abbé Ordinaire, London: T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, Chapter 22, p. 158,\nFrom the fierce burning stream, the afterwaves keep those over which they flow, in a state of fusion:"
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          "ref": "1866 April 28, Saturday Review, volume 21, number 548, page 490:",
          "text": "Simultaneously with the lull in Germany we are beginning to hear of all these preparations [in Italy], which the lull renders comparatively unimportant. The news of them comes as a sort of afterwave of the German crisis.",
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          "ref": "1918, James Sully, chapter 5, in My Life and Friends: A Psychologist’s Memories, London: T. Fisher Unwin, page 120:",
          "text": "[I] hurried on […] to Verona, and my first view of Italy’s monumental record of her past. I caught a sort of afterwave of the patriot’s angry shudder as I looked upon the forts which had recently made one of the chief overawing strongholds of the Austrian domination.",
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        {
          "ref": "1968, Ayi Kwei Armah, chapter 6, in The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 84:",
          "text": "Sounds, the mild thunder of the night waves hitting calmer water and the sigh of retreating afterwaves, now joined together with what we saw.",
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          "ref": "2003, Norman Rush, chapter 37, in Mortals, New York: Knopf, pages 705–706:",
          "text": "He moved in her. She was in one of the afterwaves of coming when he began.",
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        "A wave (in literal and figurative senses) that follows something."
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          "text": "1801, Robert Charles Dallas (translator), The Natural History of Volcanoes by the Abbé Ordinaire, London: T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, Chapter 22, p. 158,\nFrom the fierce burning stream, the afterwaves keep those over which they flow, in a state of fusion:"
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          "text": "[I] hurried on […] to Verona, and my first view of Italy’s monumental record of her past. I caught a sort of afterwave of the patriot’s angry shudder as I looked upon the forts which had recently made one of the chief overawing strongholds of the Austrian domination.",
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