1 tide

2 current

3 damp

4 moist

5 humid

1 tide

2 current

3 trend

1 storm

2 violent commotion

3 fig. crisis (e.g. revolution, uprising, financial crisis etc)

1 a tide of people

1 low tide

2 low ebb

1 one day's sun, ten days' frost (idiom, from Mencius); fig. to work for a bit then skimp

2 sporadic effort

3 short attention span

1 not to submit to force (idiom); to defy threats and violence

1 thoughts surging in one's mind (idiom)

2 different thoughts coming to mind

1 lit. fight tigers with one's bare hands and wade across raging rivers (idiom)

2 fig. to display foolhardy courage

1 to tax by force and extort levies (idiom); to screw taxes out of the people by force