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Significados de sea-poose 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