Undertow is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for UNDERTOW in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the seaward pull of receding waves breaking on a shore
• an implicit quality, emotion, or influence underlying the superficial aspects of something and leaving a particular impression
• strong undercurrent flowing in a different direction from the surface current
• The current that sets seaward near the bottom when waves are breaking upon the shore.
• an inclination contrary to the strongest or prevailing feeling
• the seaward undercurrent created after waves have broken on the shore

Words related to UNDERTOW

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Words that contain UNDERTOW

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How to use UNDERTOW in a sentence

• The prevalence of an unmitigated undertow renders it quite exhilarating for old ladies and invalids.
• The white line was nearer to us now, and above all the rage of wind and sea I could hear the awful roar of the under-tow sucking back the pebbles on the beach.
• It pulled at him like an undertow as he crossed the bridge.
• Then, like the undertow of a big wave, the reaction caught her.
• But at the same time there was a really painful undertow of shame at telling what I felt was indeed a sacred secret.
• Each breaker curved high above the heads of the men, and, receding, the undertow sucked at their feet and tried to drag them under.
• Probably the crest of the billow would have subsided through the effect of an undertow setting eastward again.
• Mask is driven mad by the loss of his friend and, seeking to join him by the sea, is overwhelmed and drawn out by the undertow.
• That there was an undertow of the sinister escaped her or she ignored it.
• Where the clashing waves embraced each other, he was checked and held, being rolled like a log that is caught between a back and an undertow.
• The undertow here is so strong, that it is not safe to venture away from the rope.
• By this time he was fathoms deep in the reactionary undertow.
• He made me promise not to tell Aunt Martha, because she was very much opposed to his going in bathing on account of the undertow.
• At the turn after high water, for instance, there is such a terrific undertow that it sets up a small maelstrom among the reefs lying off the island.
• The captain said the under-tow was so great that none could be saved in that way.
• And many are in the deadly suction of the undertow.
• I thought that if I was not careful I might be caught in the back wash, drawn slowly along it by the undertow, till the cataract sank me.
• A heavy sea was running, and evidently with a strong undertow.
• Despite the awful under-tow in the immorality of the sailor, the adventurer and the gain-greedy foreigner, the tide of Christianity began steadily to rise.

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