undertow
IPA: ˈʌndɝtoʊ
noun
- A short-range flow of water returning seaward from the waves breaking on the shore.
- (by extension) A feeling that runs contrary to one's normal one.
verb
- (transitive) To pull or tow under; drag beneath; pull down.
- (transitive) To pull down by, or as by, an undertow.
- (intransitive) To flow or behave as an undertow.
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Examples of "undertow" in Sentences
- But if you know any other "undertow" songs I'd love to hear them.
- Only I'm still struggling against the current it seems. that damn undertow is a bitch, you know?
- He appears to be entering a produc - play on the word "undertow," is the code word the tive stage in his career, with plans for three nov -
- In some areas, people have used the term undertow to describe the combination of being knocked down, pulled out and submerged due to a lack of swimming ability and or lack of knowing what to do to escape.
- There is, in the easternmost fork of the Vingaard River, a sudden surge in the midstream current even more powerful than the steady undertow which is the constant bane of the rivermen and of those who foolishly try to cross.
- I presume that this would be happening throughout the glacier so that, in equilibrium, the annual accumulation over the entire glacier net of surface sublimation would be balanced by a type of "undertow" delivery to the downslope tongue.
- Titanic, and it seems that Minister Reith may be caught in a similar kind of undertow as a result of his inability to unhitch himself from Patrick, so when Chris sent me the words I was only too happy to include it in my growing collection.
- Into the edge of one of these countercurrents, that was produced by the very rocks on which the schooner lay, and which the watermen call the "undertow," Dillon had, unknowingly, thrown his person; and when the waves had driven him a short distance from the wreck, he was met by a stream that his most desperate efforts could not overcome.
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