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Went against the current trend? (6)

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I believe the answer is:

eddied

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'went against the current trend?' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.

'went against the current trend?' is the wordplay.
'went' becomes 'died' ('die' can be a synonym of 'go').
'against' says to put letters next to each other.
'the current trend?' becomes 'ed' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'died' put after 'ed' is 'EDDIED'.

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(Other definitions for eddied that I've seen before include "Whirled" , "Of water, swirled around" , "Of water, moved in small swirls" , "(Current) swirled" , "(Of fluid) moved in circles" .)

I've seen this clue in The Globe and Mail and The Telegraph.
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