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Meanings of riptide in English

Catalan
corrent de ressaca
Spanish
corriente

A stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current.

corrent de ressaca
Portuguese
corrente de retorno

A strong surface current flowing outwards from a shore.

corrente de retorno
Usage of riptide in English
1
He fought his way out of the riptide and redirected his thoughts.
Bulletproof bride
2
Often he would heave all this out in the same rambling riptide.
Rock and Ice Magazine
3
They think he must have been caught in the riptide and plunged under.
The Guardian
4
You were supposed to do something to get out of a riptide-butwhat?
Vicious
5
And then the distant zeppelins buckled like red gelatinous creatures caught in riptide.
The last page
6
She felt like she was caught in a riptide.
Mission road
7
But the pull was as irresistible as the riptide.
The black prism
8
Now every hour and sometimes more often, Michael Blake surged through my mind like a riptide.
Rock and Ice Magazine
9
The pounding of my riptide heart seemed hard enough to push me deep under the surface.
Fear nothing
10
Four other friends were successfully rescued from the riptide, after a co-ordinated response from the Mozambique Navy.
The South African
11
I was about to ask him about his sisters when another thought hit me like a riptide.
The accidental demon slayer
12
Is it wrong for me to encourage Dad to swim when the riptide is at its strongest?
Are you there, vodka? it's me, chelsea
13
He looked strangely like Alex Huff-asif he were caught in a riptide he couldn't possibly control.
Rebel island
14
She felt indignation rising up from the pit of her stomach, flooding through her like a riptide.
The god project
15
Voices boomed and radios hissed and someone was calling her name but she was helpless against the riptide.
Ape House
16
For the next few hundred meters, we wormed through a giant traffic jam as if swimming against a riptide.
Kill bin laden: a delta force commander's account of the hunt fo...
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Translations for riptide
Spanish
corriente
Riptide through the time