rolling wave
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- noun
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- The swelling comes in long rolling waves.
- comes in rolling waves
- long rolling waves
Examples
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It arrives with all the irresistible regularity of rolling waves and it never ends.
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The gentle and warm water, specially protected from the rolling waves, is ideal for swimming.
Blog text (9) -
The setting sun blushes crimson across the rolling waves of the Pacific.
Fiction book (2002) -
A steady rolling wave of sound it is, moving at the pace of the soldier in the wheelchair who marks the forward edge with his presence.
Blog text (2) -
Roaring through the town, pushing a rolling wave of debris, obliterating anything in its path.
Fiction book (1998) -
Wallowing out there in the rolling waves, blood staining the water, and Wayne, as he watched, knew that America would see the blood and the whale suffering and that a great outcry would come.
Fiction book (2002) -
I could never figure out why they boasted that it was six stories high, that you could see for twenty miles, when I had the same view from the porthole of my cabin—the blue, white, and gray rolling waves that kept me sick for most of the whole damned vacation.
Fiction book (1990) -
The sun set over the horizon, casting a golden light on the rolling waves as they crashed onto the shore.
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Children played on the beach, giggling as they ran away from the rolling waves that came closer with each tide.
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The boat rocked gently on the rolling waves, creating a soothing rhythm as it drifted towards the shore.
Synonyms
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4.4
A long heavy sea wave that rolls toward the shore
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7.4
A large rolling wave on the sea
A large curling sea wave that breaks on the shore
Large rolling waves that make the sea rise and fall
Antonyms
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Morphology
The phrase 'rolling wave' is a straightforward adjective+noun composition: a wave that 'rolls' or moves in a rolling motion, so the meaning 'a long, heavy sea wave moving toward the shore' is directly derivable from the constituents. This compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows normal English word-formation, so a B1 learner who knows 'roll/rolling' and 'wave' will readily understand it.
Etymology
Rolling wave paints a picture of a long, heavy wall of water that turns and moves like a slow wheel, the part rolling shows the turning motion and wave is the moving water. So, the phrase means 'a long, heavy sea wave moving toward the shore'.