Synset
a sudden or abrupt strong increase
<noun.act>
freq. cnt.: 2
freq. cnt.: 2
surge
upsurge
sample sentences
"stimulated a surge of speculation"
"an upsurge of emotion"
"an upsurge in violent crime"
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
surge
surge
semantic pointers
hypernym
increase, step-up