Usually means: Strong current pulling under water.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. undertow: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. undertow: Merriam-Webster
  3. undertow: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. undertow: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. undertow: Collins English Dictionary
  6. undertow: Vocabulary.com
  7. Undertow, undertow: Wordnik
  8. undertow: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. undertow: Wiktionary
  10. undertow: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. undertow: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. undertow: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. undertow: Dictionary.com
  14. undertow: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. undertow: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. The Undertow (The O.C. episode), The Undertow, Undertow (Blind Idiot God album), Undertow (Drenge album), Undertow (Mark Seymour album), Undertow (The Killing), Undertow (The Wire), Undertow (Tool album), Undertow (album), Undertow (band), Undertow (disambiguation), Undertow (roller coaster), Undertow (song), Undertow (video game), Undertow (water waves), Undertow: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Undertow: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. undertow: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. undertow: Rhymezone
  20. Undertow: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. undertow: FreeDictionary.org
  22. undertow: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. undertow: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Undertow (album), undertow: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. undertow: Urban Dictionary

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  4. Undertow, Undertow: Latitude Mexico
  5. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To pull or tow under; drag beneath; pull down.
verb:  (transitive) To pull down by, or as by, an undertow.
verb:  (intransitive) To flow or behave as an undertow.
noun:  A short-range flow of water returning seaward from the waves breaking on the shore.
noun:  (by extension) A feeling that runs contrary to one's normal one.

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