Tide
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream. To pour a tide or flood. To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse. To happen, occur.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The periodic change of the sea level, particularly when caused by the gravitational influence of the sun and the moon. A stream, current or flood. (obsolete except in liturgy) Time, notably anniversary, period or season linked to an ecclesiastical feast. The period of twelve hours. Something which changes like the tides of the sea. Tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current. Violent confluence — Francis Bacon
Example sentence: Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Surge
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The swell or heave of the sea. (FM 55-501).A sudden rush, flood or increase which is transient.A sudden electrical spike or increase of voltage and current.The maximum amplitude of a vehicles' forward/backward oscillation
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To rush, flood, or increase suddenly.To accelerate forwards, particularly suddenly.To slack off a line.
Example sentence: Nathaniel Rich wrote 'Odds Against Tomorrow' well before Hurricane Sandy and its surge crashed onto the isle of Manhattan, well before the streets were flooded and the subways drowned, only the Goldman Sachs building sparkling above the darkened avenues.