wave; moving ridge




one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water)


Type of:
  • movement; motion

Types:
  • surf; breaker; breakers
  • wake; backwash
  • swash
  • ripple; rippling; riffle; wavelet
  • swell; crestless wave
  • lift; rise
  • billow; surge
  • tidal wave
  • tidal wave
  • tsunami
  • roller; roll; rolling wave
  • comber
  • whitecap; white horse


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