Synonyms for upsurge
ʌpˈsɜrdʒ; ˈʌpˌsɜrdʒup·surge

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1. rush, spate, surge, upsurgenoun

   a sudden forceful flow

   Synonyms:
   tidy sum, wad, peck, mint, haste, plenty, lot, batch, raft, quite a little, passel, spate, muckle, rushing, pile, kick, good deal, stack, mountain, sight, billow, deal, heap, boot, freshet, thrill, flock, hatful, mickle, slew, charge, mess, mass, hurry, flush, rush, bang, great deal, surge, pot

2. surge, upsurgenoun

   a sudden or abrupt strong increase

   "stimulated a surge of speculation"; "an upsurge of emotion"; "an upsurge in violent crime"

   Synonyms:
   spate, billow, surge, rush

Matched Categories

1. • Flow
   • Increase

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1. List of paraphrases for "upsurge":

   resurgence, recrudescence, escalation, outbreak, surge, re-emergence, increase, intensification, wave, rise, climax, boom

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1. Antonio Guterres:

   Hate speech is spreading and public discourse is being coarsened, social media is being exploited as a platform for bigotry. We must all show solidarity in response to this dangerous upsurge in hatred.

2. Ashok Ghosh:

   The cause of the upsurge in arsenic concentration is the overuse of groundwater for irrigation and drinking, which happens when withdrawal rates exceed recharge rate, there is no law here to check excessive groundwater withdrawal.

3. Nathan Thrall:

   This upsurge is mostly all bad for Abbas, any change in confronting Israel is necessarily a weakening of Abbas and a strengthening of his Palestinian political opponents, both within Fatah and outside it.

4. Getty Images:

   In kindergarten she was wearing a mask all year, and it wasn't an issue, and at the beginning of this year they didn't have them wearing masks, and she was thrilled, of course. And then with the upsurge and the new variant they had to return to masks. And she just cried. She was devastated. So it really brought it… more into perspective to me that this is hard for them. It affects them so much more than we realize sometimes.

5. Mukaibar Shah:

   Media suddenly starts reporting the upsurge of Covid cases only on weekends to make people fear, but during political rally it sees no problem and this only proves that Corona is a media created virus and all Covid cases is a fake news.