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Significados de undertow en inglés

The seaward undercurrent created after waves have broken on the shore.

Uso de undertow en inglés
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I've complained that when the crisis comes we react to the undertow.
The Tyranny of Weakness
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It started in a sombre way but with no undertow of despair.
The Irish Times
3
They are ahead of the cask-theydart forward-theundertow has got them.
Ronald Morton; or, the Fire Ships: A Story of the Last Naval War
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He was almost within her reach, when the undertow swept him back.
Tales and Sketches / Part 3 from Volume V of The Works of John G...
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Then, like the undertow of a big wave, the reaction caught her.
Mary Wollaston
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Slowly, fighting the undertow, he made his way back to solid ground.
The Mantooth
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I felt sleep pulling me under like the undertow of the surf.
Living dead in dallas
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Waves of coal standing immobile against the undertow of the sandy tide.
Grand junction
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Already she felt it, the dark undertow of magic against her skin.
Street magic
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Gran refused, fearing undertow in the swells breaking white on the sand.
Bones to Ashes
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Swings between sectors continue to generate a powerful undertow in otherwise tranquil markets.
Reuters
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She would never hear him speak again without a sense of that undertow.
What alice knew: a most curious tale of henry james & jack the r...
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Only later do you twig an undertow of hope and hurt.
The Guardian
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By this time he was fathoms deep in the reactionary undertow.
The Price
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I swirl along in the undertow, wondering what I've let myself in for.
Equoid
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The time you got caught in an undertow and almost drowned.
The missing
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