Synonyms of tsunamis

tsunamis

noun

variants also tsunami

plural of tsunami

as in seas

a very high, large wave in the ocean that is usually caused by an earthquake under the sea and that can cause great destruction when it reaches land

The coastline will suffer devastating damage if a tsunami ever hits it.

Related Words

• seas
• swells
• surges
• tidal waves
• billows
• surfs
• breakers
• ripples
• whitecaps
• rollers
• wavelets
• curls
• combers
• riffles
• ground swells

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of tsunamis

Flores experienced one of the country’s deadliest disasters in 1992, when an earthquake and ensuing tsunami killed about 2,500 people. — ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026

Basarnas/Handout/Anadolu/Getty For many residents, the disaster revived painful memories of a powerful earthquake and tsunami that struck Flores in 1992, killing about 2,500 people. — CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026

Residents fled in panic as tsunami warnings were issued; they were later lifted. — Firdia Lisnawati, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2026

The tsunamis reached several small coastal villages, which caused some infrastructure damage, according to The Associated Press, though a tsunami warning has since been lifted. — Connor Greene, Time, 17 Aug. 2026

In December of 1992, a magnitude 7 earthquake caused a tsunami that killed about 2,500 people on the southeastern island of Flores, part of a group of islands in the eastern half of Indonesia. — Babak Dehghanpisheh, NBC news, 14 Aug. 2026

Colombia’s National Unit for Disaster Risk Management, citing information from the country’s maritime authority, said the earthquake did not pose a tsunami threat to Colombia’s Pacific coast. — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 10 Aug. 2026

The tsunami of public and private debt as well as the competition for investor demand have put upward pressure on yields, which adds to interest costs and the federal deficit. — Jason Ma, Fortune, 9 Aug. 2026

In 1945, 84 percent of federal outlays were on defense, a tsunami of spending that would ebb once World War II concluded. — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2026