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high tide

noun as in tide when water is highest

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The Coast Guard plans to move the vessel ashore at high tide.

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He just waited until the high tide came in at four o’clock in the afternoon.

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As of Wednesday afternoon, Coyote Creek, which flows through the Santa Clara Valley, was seeing some minor flooding due to the high tide tidal surge, according to the weather service.

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Satellite images show that Vietnam has created new land on all 21 rocks and so-called low-tide elevations—reefs that were previously submerged at high tide—that it occupies in the Spratlys.

The next high tide is expected Thursday morning around 7 a.m.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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