undertowing

Verb

undertow (third-person singular simple present undertows, present participle undertowing, simple past and past participle undertowed)

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, [...]1914, Denton Jaques Snider, Lincoln at Richmond
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.1998, Richard Gough, David Williams, Ric Allsopp, Performance Research: On Place
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.1917, The Unpopular review

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