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CROSSCURRENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Actions counter to the main group activity
Example:
political crosscurrents disrupted the conference
Synonyms:
countercurrent; crosscurrent
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("crosscurrent" is a kind of...):
strife (bitter conflict; heated often violent dissension)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current
Synonyms:
countercurrent; crosscurrent; rip; riptide; tide rip
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("crosscurrent" is a kind of...):
turbulence; turbulency (unstable flow of a liquid or gas)
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