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US
/ˈəndɝˌtoʊ/
]
[ UK /ˌʌndətˈəʊ/ ]
[ UK /ˌʌndətˈəʊ/ ]
NOUN
-
an inclination contrary to the strongest or prevailing feeling
his account had a poignant undertow of regret - the seaward undercurrent created after waves have broken on the shore
How To Use undertow In A Sentence
- Stronger than the real Rianna, strong as the undertow of the tide, as the onrush of the wave. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
- Yet they delighted in the constant movement of the ocean, fascinated by the pounding waves and pulling undertows.
- Regardless of the undertow of danger, Johnnie would not give back the diaphragm case.
- But it's the undertow of precocious sexuality, the child-woman come-on, that's more worrying.
- It was far away, almost out of sight, and the undertow threatened to pull her down at any moment.
- La canzone, scritta da Maynard James Keenan, è il secondo singolo tratto da Undertow, loro album di esordio. No Fat Clips!!! : Tool – Sober
- He swam across the river easily, even though the undertow beneath could be fatal to someone who was not a strong swimmer.
- Did she lose her head or courage, or misplay her muscular part for a moment, she could be hurled a hundred feet by that giant buffet and left wrenched, helpless, and breathless to be pulped on the coral bottom and sucked out by the undertow to be battened on by the fish-sharks too cowardly to take their human meat alive. THE KANAKA SURF
- A sprawling double album of many moods, and even the upbeat numbers have an undertow of fragmentation.
- Did she lose her head or courage, or misplay her muscular part for a moment, she could be hurled a hundred feet by that giant buffet and left wrenched, helpless, and breathless to be pulped on the coral bottom and sucked out by the undertow to be battened on by the fish-sharks too cowardly to take their human meat alive. THE KANAKA SURF