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undertow
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun undertow has 2 senses
- undertow(n = noun.feeling) Array - an inclination contrary to the strongest or prevailing feeling; "his account had a poignant undertow of regret" is a kind of inclination
- undertow(n = noun.event) sea purse, sea puss, sea-poose, sea-purse, sea-puss - the seaward undercurrent created after waves have broken on the shore; Array is a kind of undercurrent, undertide
CIDE DICTIONARY
undertow, n.
The current that sets seaward near the bottom when waves are breaking upon the shore. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
undertow, n. a current below the surface of the sea moving in the opposite direction to the surface current.
THESAURUS
undertow
affluence, afflux, affluxion, concourse, confluence, conflux, coral heads, course, crosscurrent, current, defluxion, downflow, downpour, drift, driftage, flow, flowing, fluency, flux, gush, inflow, ironbound coast, ledges, lee shore, mill run, millrace, onrush, onward course, outflow, pitfall, quicksands, race, rockbound coast, rocks, run, rush, sandbank, sandbar, sands, set, shallows, shoals, spate, stream, surge, tide, trend, undercurrent, water flow
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