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• n  a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current
• n  actions counter to the main group activity

• Despite the natural assumption that such popularity must be deserved, the Pill has provoked an almost equally strong countercurrent of opposition and denunciation.
• The authors point out that even as Western Europe and America began evolving into liberal democracies with capitalist economies, a countercurrent of opposition accused the newly .
• But cathodic protection creates a countercurrent, which flows from an anode placed near the pipeline, through the soil and directly onto the pipeline itself, effectively zapping .

• rip
• riptide
• tide rip
• crosscurrent