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full tide

full tide noun: synonym of high tide (“the highest level of the tide”).

Noun

full tide (uncountable)

  1. Synonym of high tide (“the highest level of the tide”).
    Synonyms:
    high tide

Adverb

full tide (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) Strongly; with full power; full-bore.
    • The taste for out-door life and green fields came back full tide on all our writing after the coffeehouse life of the last century[.]1867 May 24, The Ballarat Star, Victoria, page 4, column 3
    • And joyfulness comes on full tide with them for evermore.1918 May 20, The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate, NSW, page 4, column 1

Synonyms of full tide

Questions about full tide

What does full tide mean?
Full tide means synonym of high tide (“the highest level of the tide”).
What part of speech is full tide?
Full tide can be a noun or an adverb.

Words near full tide in the dictionary

  1. full swaps
  2. full take
  3. full term
  4. full throttle
  5. full throttles
  6. full tide
  7. full tilt
  8. full tilt boogie
  9. full time
  10. full times
  11. full to the gills

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