Stormy Seas
Raging Waves
noun, の adjective
A wild wave will make for some stormy seas or raging waves. Don't go out in these kinds of waves.
The readings come from the kun'yomi readings of the kanji, 荒 (the secondary reading you learned with this kanji) and 波 (just the vocab version).
アイツはまだ社会の荒波に揉まれた事のないただの若造だよ。
He is just a young boy who hasn’t been tossed in the stormy seas of life yet.