tide

Noun

• there are usually two high and two low tides each day

• something that may increase or decrease (like the tides of the sea)
  • a rising tide of popular interest
    

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

Verb

• be carried with the tide

• cause to float with the tide

• rise or move forward
  • surging waves
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  lunar time period , surge
• Antonyms: 
  ebb , ebb away , ebb down , ebb out , ebb off