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undertow
affluence, confluence, crosscurrent, downpour, flowing, inflow, mill run, outflow, rockbound coast, sandbank, shallows, surge, water flow
Definition
n.
an inclination contrary to the strongest or prevailing feeling
Last update: July 27, 2015
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The pull of the
undertow
can drag swimmers out to sea.
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His claims formed an
undertow
to the resentment of Medina and of the rival families of Mecca against the advancement of the Omayyads.
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Beneath his speech was an undercurrent--or
undertow
, perhaps--carrying her swiftly, easily, helpless into the deep waters of intimacy.
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A corpse rising saltwhite from the
undertow
, bobbing a pace a pace a porpoise landward.
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"There's the devil of an
undertow
settin' along this beach," they told him, "and the water's too cold to drownd in comfortable."'
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His strokes for safety were as bold as was the
undertow
that ceaselessly annulled them.
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It scares me to see how many of my classmates are already caught in the
undertow
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