surging

Pluralsurgings

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle of surge.

   Prices have been surging since the shortage began to bite.

   Electricity was surging through the damaged line, sparking at every joint.

   Note

   The -ing form carries every use of the verb, and most of them take no object: prices are surging, a crowd surges forward, an engine's compressor surges when its intake airflow is disrupted. The exception is the rope-handling sense, to slack off a line, which does take one: surging the line. Once the word takes an article or a plural (a surging, surgings), it has become the noun for the motion itself.

2. 2
   nouncountable or uncountable

   The act of rising or rushing forward with great force, or a single instance of that powerful motion.

   Like the sudden swell of a wave rolling hard onto the shore.

   The rhythmic surging of the tide pushed the dinghy steadily against the rocks.

   A sudden surging of demand emptied the shelves within hours of opening.

   Similarrush, swell, flood

   Oppositeebb

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