Usually means: Strong underwater currents pulling seaward.
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  1. undertows: Merriam-Webster
  2. undertows: Collins English Dictionary
  3. undertows: Vocabulary.com
  4. undertows: Wordnik
  5. undertows: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. undertows: Wiktionary
  7. undertows: Dictionary.com
  8. undertows: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. undertows: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. undertows: Encyclopedia

(Note: See undertow as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (undertow)

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.
▸ Also see undertow





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