English Dictionary

undertow

動詞

他動詞 自動詞

(transitive) To pull or tow under; drag beneath; pull down. / (transitive) To pull down by, or as by, an undertow. / (intransitive) To flow or behave as an undertow.

日本語の意味

（他動詞）対象を水流などで下方に引き込む、引き下ろす動作をする。 / （他動詞）水流の力などによって何かを引き下ろす、引き込む。 / （自動詞）水流のように流れたり振る舞ったりする。

A sudden riptide can undertow even experienced swimmers.

突然の離岸流は、経験豊富な泳者でさえ水中に引きずり込むことがある。

意味（1）

(transitive) To pull or tow under; drag beneath; pull down.

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, …

意味（2）

(transitive) To pull down by, or as by, an undertow.

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.

意味（3）

(intransitive) To flow or behave as an undertow.

Everybody knows this and acts accordingly; but when you say it, it sounds bad and bold, and makes you uncomfortable to hear it, because the puritan blood is still undertowing in your veins.

undertows （ present singular third-person ）

undertowing （ participle present ）

undertowed （ participle past ）

undertowed （ past ）