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buck the tide

buck the tide verb: synonym of buck the trend.

Verb

buck the tide (third-person singular simple present bucks the tide, present participle bucking the tide, simple past and past participle bucked the tide)

  1. Synonym of buck the trend.
    • But it appears Spain bucked the tide, pointed out Jordi Évole, one of Spain’s best-known television personalities on the left.2023 July 24, Ashifa Kassam, “Vox party’s hardline attitudes appear to have turned off Spanish voters”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
    Synonyms:
    buck the trend

Synonyms of buck the tide

Forms of buck the tide

third-person singular presentbucks the tide
present participlebucking the tide
past participlebucked the tide
pastbucked the tide

Questions about buck the tide

What does buck the tide mean?
Buck the tide means synonym of buck the trend.
What part of speech is buck the tide?
Buck the tide is a verb.
What is the past tense of buck the tide?
The past tense of buck the tide is bucked the tide.

Words near buck the tide in the dictionary

  1. buck rarebits
  2. Buck Rogers time
  3. buck slip
  4. buck slips
  5. buck spinifex
  6. buck the tide
  7. buck the tiger
  8. buck the trend
  9. buck up
  10. buck up one's ideas
  11. buck up to

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