backwash

• His huge black beard was bristling, his great chest was heaving with indignation, and his arrogant grey eyes swept me up and down as the backwash of his anger fell upon me Infernal, idle, overpaid rascals!' —  The Disintegration Machine and Other Stories
• When, finally, the police were brought in, they fastened like limpets upon this bit of information and, after hunting about the cliff for hours at a time, waited for poor Flossie to turn up ten miles down-stream where there is a backwash or something. —  Died in the Wool - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 13: 1944
• The coast was quite deserted: the steep sand wet as the backwash slid away: the rocks wet with rain: the low, long black steamer still laboured in the fume of the wind, indistinctly. —  Lawrence - Kangaroo
• This is another example of dem leadership capitulating to the backwash - thoroughly discredited and unpopular politicians and agendas. —  Think Progress
• The supervisor of the water supply in the municipal office, Tenzin, said that they carry out backwash, a process used to remove mud and other sediments by channeling water from a greater height, from the bottom of the sedimentation tanks, every two or three days. —  Kuensel Newspaper

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