Upsurge

Definition: Upsurge

Upsurge

Noun

1. A sudden forceful flow.

2. A sudden or abrupt strong increase: "stimulated a surge of speculation"; "an upsurge of emotion"; "an upsurge in violent crime".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Upsurge

Crosswords: Upsurge

Books

• Conflict and Communication: Mass Upsurge in Assam (reference)

• Demographic upsurge : a case study of Madhya Pradesh (reference)

• Recent Nepal: An Analysis of Recent Democratic Upsurge and Its Aftermath (Nirala Series-24) (reference)

• Socialist Upsurge in China's Countryside (reference)

• South Africa: Time of Agony, Time of Destiny: The Upsurge of Popular Protest (reference)

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Vigorously grasp the economic class struggle, start a new upsurge in production by helping each other reach new heights. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Business

There has been an upsurge of apocalyptic teaching in orthodox as well as heterodox millennial sects as the year 2000 approaches. (references)

During the same time, Telkom's subsidiary has relaunched its mobile prepaid service, resulting in an upsurge of its clientele from an original 16,000 on its GSM system (plus another 4,000 subscribers on an analogue network) with approximately 55,000 new subscribers. (references)

Civil Liberties

Ghana

On September 8, the Ghana Police Administration announced that police would erect security checkpoints throughout the country in response to an upsurge in highway robberies; periodic customs checkpoints and patrols were established by year's end. (references)

Economic History

Ireland

Fee-paying attractions have experienced an upsurge in visitor numbers in recent years. (references)

Andorra

Although less than 2% of the land is arable, agriculture was the mainstay of the Andorran economy until the upsurge in tourism. (references)

Human Rights

India

There was a significant upsurge in militant violence against security forces, and a tendency to use heavy weapons such as hand grenades and rockets. (references)

Philippines

In October a CHR official warned Davao City officials about the alarming upsurge in summary executions of suspected drug pushers, mostly teenagers, by vigilante groups. (references)

Minorities

Mauritania

The acceleration of desertification during the 1970's that destroyed much of the traditional economic basis of Moorish society, and an upsurge of Arab nationalism among White Moors during the 1980's, contributed to ethnic violence precipitated by a dispute with Senegal during 1989-91; this violence entailed the expulsion or flight of many non-Moors living in the south and occupation of much of their land by Moors, including Black Moors. (references)

Political Economy

GHANA

These factors led to a severe shortage of foreign exchange, rapid depreciation of the cedi against the dollar by about 60 percent, and an upsurge of inflation from 14 percent at the end of December 1999 to 41 percent at the end of December 2000. Imbalances caused by the terms of trade shocks were further exacerbated by heavy government spending and borrowing in the run-up to the December 2000 elections. (references)

Trade

Burma

In the face of increasing restrictions and slow business climate, a number of foreign firms have closed their doors, and there has been an upsurge in smuggling and black market trading. (references)

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Albanian

rritje e shpejtë (thrift). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فيض المشاعر, ‏زيادة سريعة, ‏ارتفاع مفاجئ. (various references)

Bulgarian 

надигане (gurgitation), подем (boom, progress, revival, upgrade, uplift, upswing). (various references)

Chinese 

高潮 (high tide, high water). (various references)

Czech

vlna (rash, roller, sea, surge, tide, wave, wool), oživení (animation, renewal), nárùst (growth), eskalace. (various references)

Danish

økonomisk opsving (upswing). (various references)

Farsi 

قیام فوری وناگهانی , صعودناگهانی , بسوی بالاموج زدن . (various references)

French

vague, renaissance, regain, recrudescence, phase d'expansion (upswing), phase ascendante (upswing), accès. (various references)

German

aufwallung (fit, outburst, surge). (various references)

Greek 

έξαρση (boom, elation), φούσκωμα (bump, flatulence, flatulency, inflation, puff, swell, swelling, tumidness, turgidity, turgidness). (various references)

Hungarian

feltörés (chamber, eruption, forcing, picking, rise). (various references)

Italian

slancio (abandon, abbandonato, bounce, bound, burst, dart, dash, fit, leap, liveliness, pep, rush, spring). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

高まり (elevation, rise, swell). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たかまり (elevation, rise, swell). (various references)

Pig Latin

urgeupsay

Portuguese

explosão (blast, burst, bursting, bust, detonation, discharge, eruption, explosion, outbreak, outburst). (various references)

Romanian

elan (Ardor, ardour, briskness, elan, elk, enthusiasm, go, impetus, moose, soar, soaring, spring, stir), dezvoltare (amplification, development, enlargement, evolution, germination, growth, involution, process, progress, promotion, rise), creştere (accretion, accrual, addition, aggrandizement, augmentation, development, education, enlargement, farming, fosterage, gain, growing, growth, heft, husbandry, increase, increment, jump, nurse, nurture, propagation, rise, rising, upbringing), avânt (approach, dash, elan, enthusiasm, fire, flight, impetus, lift, momentum, run, soar, soaring, spring, take off), înãlţare (elevation, erection, exaltation, hoist, lift, raising, rise, rising). (various references)

Russian 

подъем (acclivity, ascent, climb, elevation, heave, heaving, hoist, instep, lift, lifting, raise, reveille, rise, rouse, take off, up, upgrade, uplift, uprise, upswing, upturn, verve). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

porast (accretion, boost, increase, jump, mark up, multiplication, pickup, rise, upgrowth). (various references)

Spanish

recrudecimiento (recrudescence), fase de expansión (upswing), fase ascendente (upswing), brote (bud, burgeon, outbreak, shoot, shooting, sprout). (various references)

Swedish

uppsving (boom, upswing), uppgång (bulge, entrance, gain, increase, pickup, rise, rising, staircase, upswing, upturn, way up), våg (balance, billow, Crimp, scale, scales, sea, wave), ansvällning (swelling). (various references)

Turkish

yükselmek (arise, ascend, be in the ascendant, be in the ascendent, climb, develop, escalate, flow, gain, get one's promotion, go up, harden, heighten, improve, Louden, nose up, rear up, rise, scale up, soar, steepen, step up, sublime, swell, tower, upheave, work one's way up), yükselme (advance, advancement, ascension, ascent, climb, distinction, escalation, flux, gain, hike, increase, pickup, preferment, progress, promotion, promotional, raise, rise, rising, scaling, step up, swell, swelling, upheaval, uprising, upthrust), kabarmak (arch, blister, bloat, bloat out, heave, puff, rise, roughen, surge, swell, tumefy, vesicate), kabarma (eruption, flow, ground swell, heave, heaving, intumescence, pulvinate, surge, surging, swell, swelling, upheaval, uprising, upthrust), hızlı artış. (various references)

Ukrainian

швидке піднесення, підвищуватися (aggrandize, heighten). (various references)

Vietnamese 

cn, đợt bột phát. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "upsurge": upsurged, upsurges. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: purges, pursue, spurge.

-2 letters: grues, gurus, purge, purse, sprue, sprug, super, surge, urges, usurp.

-3 letters: ergs, grue, guru, pegs, pugs, pure, purs, regs, reps, rues, rugs, ruse, spue, spur, suer, supe, sure, urge, urus, user.

-4 letters: erg, ers, peg, per, pes, pug, pur, pus, reg, rep, res, rue, rug, seg, ser, sue, sup, ups.

+1 letter: guipures, upsurged, upsurges.

+2 letters: superglue.

+3 letters: repursuing, superglues, supergroup, surplusage.

+4 letters: groupuscule, supergroups, surplusages.

+5 letters: groupuscules, supersurgeon.

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