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tsunami 音标拼音: [tsun'ɑmi] [sun'ɑmi] n. 海啸 海啸 tsunami n 1: a cataclysm resulting from a destructive sea wave caused by an earthquake or volcanic eruption; " a colossal tsunami destroyed the Minoan civilization in minutes" Tidal wave \ Tid" al wave\, n. 1. an unusually high wave from the sea, sometimes reaching far inland and causing great destruction, and usually caused by some event, such as an earthquake, far from the shore. In Japan, such a wave is called a { tsunami}. [ PJC] 2. [ fig.] an unusually large quantity of items or events requiring attention and causing strain on the capacity to handle them; as, a tidal wave of orders for a new product; a tidal wave of tourists. [ PJC] 56 Moby Thesaurus words for " tsunami": apoplexy, billow, bore, breakers, breakup, cataclysm, chop, choppiness, chopping sea, climax, comb, comber, convulsion, diastrophism, dirty water, disaster, eagre, fit, gravity wave, ground swell, heave, heavy sea, heavy swell, lift, lop, overthrow, paroxysm, peak, popple, quake, riffle, ripple, rise, roll, roller, rough water, scend, sea, send, spasm, stroke, surf, surge, swell, temblor, tidal bore, tidal wave, tide wave, trough, undulation, upheaval, water wave, wave, wavelet, white horses, whitecaps
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