flood tide

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noun

1. the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding
- the climax of the artist's career
- in the flood tide of his success
• Syn:
climax
• Derivationally related forms:
climactic (for: climax), climax (for: climax)
• Hypernyms:
juncture, occasion
2. 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
• Syn:
flood, rising tide
• Ant:
ebbtide
• Hypernyms:
tide