0 an extremely large wave caused by movement of the earth under the sea, often caused by an earthquake (= a shaking of the earth)
1 a sudden large number of things:
a tidal wave of complaints
2 an extremely large wave caused by violent movement of the earth under the sea
Over the last few years there has been a tidal wave of literature on the subject.
A mass flight, a human tidal wave, some barefoot and half naked, some on the backs of mules and donkeys.
But that is quickly crushed by the tidal wave of post-impact evidence that is now presented.
It is, rather, a purely musical response to the concept of the momentum built up and ultimately discharged by a large tidal wave.
Coriolis terms are introduced into the equations governing the motion of a finite tidal wave.
Their economic measures are swallowed by a tidal wave of opposition.
The image of a 'tidal wave' dramatised the scale of displacement but also implied that refugees would engulf the host society.
Unchecked violence led to a virtual tidal wave of opposition by 1949.
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