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tsunami
Definitions
(Noun) natural disaster, water overcoming a shorelineUsage: A tsunami hit the shore a this morning.
(Noun) A large, destructive wave generated by an earthquake and which can travel long distances across open sea.
Usage: The tsunami hit Japan.
(Noun) A huge wave of seawater flooding shores and sometimes big parts of land, devastating almost everything on it's way, often occurring after earthquakes or volcanic activity.
Usage: As a result of the volcanic eruption on the small Greek island of Santorini a few thousand years ago a tide wave of seawater or a so called tsunami, probably more than thirty meters in height headed towards ancient Crete and flooded almost all the lower parts of the island.
(Noun) A "wall of water," to quote another definition, which used to be callled a tidal wave - but which is the very opposite of tidal.
(Noun) large ocean wave
(Noun) wall of water
Usage: There was a tsunami in Japan that wiped out entire villages
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