The highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding:
— In the flood tide of his success.

synonym: climax.

Roget 52: completeness etc. adj.; completion etc. 729; integration; allness^†.    entirety; perfection etc. 650; solidity, solidarity; unity; all; ne plus ultra [Lat.], ideal, limit.    complement, supplement, make-weight; filling, up etc. v.. impletion^†; saturation, saturity^†; high water; high tide, flood tide, spring tide; fill, load, bumper, bellyful^†; brimmer^†; sufficiency etc. 639.    ... show more

Roget 206: height, altitude, elevation; eminence, pitch; loftiness etc. adj.; sublimity.    tallness etc. adj.; stature, procerity^†; prominence etc. 250.    colossus etc. (size) 192; giant, grenadier, giraffe, camelopard.    mount, mountain; hill alto, butte [U.S.], monticle^†, fell, knap^†; cape; headland, foreland^†; promontory; ridge, hog's back, dune; rising ground, vantage ground; down; moor, moorland; Alp; uplands, highlands; heights etc. (summit) 210; knob, loma^†, pena [U.S.], picacho^†, tump^†; knoll, hummock, hillock, barrow, mound, mole; steeps, bluff, cliff, craig^†, tor^†, peak, pike, clough^†; escarpment, edge, ledge, brae; dizzy height.    tower, pillar, column, obelisk, monument, steeple, spire, minaret, campanile, turret, dome, cupola; skyscraper.    pole, pikestaff, maypole, flagstaff; top mast, topgallant mast.    ceiling etc. (covering) 223.    high water; high tide, flood tide, spring tide.    altimetry etc. (angel) 244^†; batophobia^†.    satellite, spy-in-the-sky.    ... show more

Roget 35: increase, augmentation, enlargement, extension; dilatation etc. (expansion) 194; increment, accretion; accession etc. 37; development, growth; aggrandizement, aggravation; rise; ascent etc. 305; exaggeration exacerbation; spread etc. (dispersion) 73; flood tide; gain, produce, product, profit.    ... show more

Roget 337: water; serum, serosity^†; lymph; rheum; diluent; agua [Sp.], aqua, pani^†.    dilution, maceration, lotion; washing etc. v.; immersion^†, humectation^†, infiltration, spargefaction^†, affusion^†, irrigation, douche, balneation^†, bath.    deluge etc. (water in motion) 348; high water, flood tide.    ... show more

The occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide).

synonyms: flood, rising tide.

Dutch: watersnood, overstroming, hoogwater, vloed