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Word entry · 8 letters

undertow

Best crossword clue

"Seaward current"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPart of speech nounSorted denortuwStarts with UEnds with W1 cluesCommon crossword word
1U2N3D4E5R6T7O8W

Definitions

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

Word origin

From under- + tow.

Used in a sentence

  • Off in a gallop the General wheeled vanishing, And sped his steed away into the blue, When Lineoln now alone let go his speech Which had before been undertowed by force, [...]
  • A sense that the air, a sighting of muddy river, or that outcrop of rock so implacably bland in the light of midday, is undertowed by memory.
  • I sink because I cannot swim, undertowed to the Centre, abandoning all remembrance of the surface toward the cloud of unknowing, without choice I'm pulled.

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