rising tide

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rising tide - the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide); "a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune" -Shakespeare

flood tide, flood

tide - the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon

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