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CROSSCURRENT

Pronunciation (US):

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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:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("crosscurrent" is a kind of...):

turbulence; turbulency (unstable flow of a liquid or gas)

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