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bucking the tide

bucking the tide is the present participle and gerund of buck the tide.

Meaning of buck the tide

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

Questions about bucking the tide

What is bucking the tide the present participle and gerund of?
Bucking the tide is the present participle and gerund of buck the tide.

Words near bucking the tide in the dictionary

  1. bucking broncos
  2. bucking down
  3. bucking for
  4. bucking in
  5. bucking out
  6. bucking the tide
  7. bucking the tiger
  8. bucking the trend
  9. bucking up
  10. bucking up one's ideas
  11. bucking up to

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