surge

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His support for the surge was and remains irrational, as it, like the war itself, has failed to create a sustainable, self-governing American-style Democracy in Iraq, which was the goal (something McCain and the Repubs like to forget).

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  1. intransitive verb To rise and move in a billowing or swelling manner.
  2. intransitive verb To roll or be tossed about on waves, as a boat.
  3. intransitive verb To move like advancing waves: The fans surged forward to see the movie star.
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  • They can wait out the foreign occupiers. variant of the "surge" strategy in Iraq - even if the surge was a bigger factor in the relative calm that prevails there than it really was - can be adapted, with due consideration for different conditions, to subdue the Taliban and give a post-Karzai foreign-approved government a secure hold on power in Afghanistan beyond Kabul? —  Antiwar.com Original
  • His support for the surge was and remains irrational, as it, like the war itself, has failed to create a sustainable, self-governing American-style Democracy in Iraq, which was the goal (something McCain and the Repubs like to forget). —  The Ostroy Report
  • Our biggest problem during the surge was a hostile American Congress. —  QandO
  • Much of this surge was a result of the commodities boom, UNCTAD notes in its World Investment Report 2008, released in September. —  AllAfrica News: Latest
  • In Ike's case, the surge could be as high as 25 feet at Galveston, enough to breach the city's —  Waldo's Virginia Political Blogroll
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rush ·  wave ·  pang ·  roar ·  spasm ·  flash ·  sensation ·  outburst ·  ripple ·  throb ·  jolt ·  thrill

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  1. Probably French sourdre, sourge- (from Old French) and French surgir, to rise (from Old French, to cast anchor, from Old Catalan), both from Latin surgere, to rise : sub-, from below; see sub- + regere, to lead straight; see reg- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also sourge; from late Middle English surgen, from Old French surgir, rise, ride (as a ship) near the shore, draw near the shore, arrive, land, F, surgir, rise, spring up, arrive, land, earlier in more vernacular form, Old French sordre, sourdre (later English obsolete sourd), French sourdre, = Provencal sorger, sorzir = Spanish surgir = Portuguese sordir, surdir = Italian sorgere, rise, from Latin surgere, contr. of surrigere, subrigere (past participle surrectus, subrectus), transitive lift up, raise, erect, intransitive rise, arise, get up, spring up, grow, etc., from sub, under, from under, + regere, stretch: see regent. Hence surge, n., and (from the L. verb) surgent, ult. source, sourd, souse, and in comp. insurge, insurgent, insurrection, etc., resurge, resurgent, resurrection, etc. In def. 2 the verb depends partly on the noun.
  2. from surge, v. The word has nothing to do, except that it comes from the same ult. source, with F. surgeon, Old French surgeon, sourgeon, sorgeon, sorjon, a spring.
 

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