Afterwave
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Afterwave is a noun meaning A wave (in literal and figurative senses) that follows something.
Meaning
A wave (in literal and figurative senses) that follows something.
Example Sentences
He moved in her. She was in one of the afterwaves of coming when he began.
Sounds, the mild thunder of the night waves hitting calmer water and the sigh of retreating afterwaves, now joined together with what we saw.
Simultaneously with the lull in Germany we are beginning to hear of all these preparations [in Italy], which the lull renders comparatively unimportant. The news of them comes as a sort of afterwave of the German crisis.
1801, Robert Charles Dallas (translator), The Natural History of Volcanoes by the Abbé Ordinaire, London: T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, Chapter 22, p. 158, From the fierce burning stream, the afterwaves keep those over which they flow, in a state of fusion:
Word Forms
- afterwaves
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include counterwave, afterpulse, backwash, afterflow, aftercoming, aftersound.
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