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Significados de sea purse em inglês

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

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        Examples for "undertow"
        Examples for "undertow"
        1
        I've complained that when the crisis comes we react to the undertow.
        The Tyranny of Weakness
        2
        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
        4
        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...
        5
        Then, like the undertow of a big wave, the reaction caught her.
        Mary Wollaston