Flash
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| sound | sound flash | sound wave |
| long | long flash | long wave |
| similar | similar flash | similar wave |
| brief | brief flash | brief wave |
| Other adjectives: short, current, original, initial, single, simple, small, large, big, huge, little, quick, later, mysterious, explosive, last, different, sudden, magical. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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The weather machine in Limbo activates with a distant flash and a powerful rumble, not unlike the shockwaves generated by the wave room.
Source: Videogame / INSIDE -
It has a column of speakers in front of it that deal gradual damage to plants, and they will periodically flash white before shooting a sonic wave that destroys all plants and zombies in that lane.
Source: Shielded Core Boss -
In MechWarrior Living Legends, a battlemech's fusion reactor Going Critical goes off like a nuke; a blinding flash, an expanding pressure wave, and a massive mushroom cloud.
Source: Everything Makes a Mushroom
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Wave and Flash. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/flash/wave
Flash & Wave. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/flash/wave>.
Wave or Flash. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/flash/wave.
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