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  • nounwave; wrinkle
  • verbwave

synonyms for ripple

  • billow
  • breaker
  • crest
  • curl
  • fold
  • furrow
  • line
  • rippling
  • rush
  • surge
  • swell
  • tide
  • undulation
  • whitecap
See also synonyms for: rippleless / ripples / rippling
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On this page you'll find 71 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ripple, such as: billow, breaker, crest, curl, fold, and furrow.

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Those ripples are called gravitational waves, or sometimes gravity waves.
COULD RIPPLES IN SPACETIME POINT TO WORMHOLES?EMILY CONOVERAUGUST 24, 2020SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTS
In the United States, the news that Kai Sotto, the 65th-ranked player in the high school class of 2020, would be joining the NBA’s G League caused barely a ripple.
THIS HOOPS HOTBED IS SET TO TAKE OFFPALLABI MUNSIAUGUST 20, 2020OZY
To look past the line-item spending and into the core concern — the economic price tag thrust onto society and its ripple effects.
THE HIDDEN COSTS OF WAR: VET CRIMESNICK FOURIEZOSAUGUST 19, 2020OZY
If vCA1 cells are the tiny ripples after throwing a rock into water, then the additional wave circuit around them are the rippling waves.
TOWARDS ‘ETERNAL SUNSHINE’? NEW LINKS FOUND BETWEEN MEMORY AND EMOTIONSHELLY FANJULY 28, 2020SINGULARITY HUB 
Add gravitons into the mix, however, and you add a new motion on top of the usual ripples in space-time.
HOW THE BITS OF QUANTUM GRAVITY CAN BUZZTHOMAS LEWTONJULY 23, 2020QUANTA MAGAZINE
Every set of changes comes with an additional ripple effect of considerations that need to be applied across our system and negotiated with our employee union groups.
NORTH COUNTY REPORT: WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT DISTRICTS’ REOPENING PLANSKAYLA JIMENEZJULY 15, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGO
As are the ripple effects — in addition to the rise in shopping at traditional grocery stores.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN EVERYONE STAYS HOME TO EAT? (EP. 412)STEPHEN J. DUBNERAPRIL 9, 2020FREAKONOMICS
This was said with a comical air of doubt, and a half smile, which sent a ripple of laughter over the charming face.
THE WORLD BEFORE THEMSUSANNA MOODIE
All was silent; a fresh breeze swept over the clear lake whose every ripple had the gracious curve of a smile.
HONEY-BEEANATOLE FRANCE
He thought he heard the ripple of waves on a sunlit shore, and of wide-spreading trees which grew close to the edge of the sea.
THE EVERLASTING ARMSJOSEPH HOCKING
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WORDS RELATED TO RIPPLE

  • cadence
  • cadency
  • measure
  • meter
  • oscillation
  • palpitation
  • pressure
  • pulsation
  • pulse
  • quake
  • quiver
  • rhyme
  • rhythm
  • ripple
  • surge
  • swell
  • swing
  • throb
  • thump
  • tick
  • undulation
  • vibration
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.