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maelstrom

noun

1 maelstrom

A powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides).

synonyms: vortex, whirlpool.

Roget 667: rocks, reefs, coral reef, sunken rocks, snags; sands, quicksands; syrt, syrtis; Goodwin sands, sandy foundation; slippery ground; breakers, shoals, ... show more

Dutch: moskstraumen, draaikolk, kolk, maalstroom, neer
Polish: wir wodny, wir

Roget 348: running water.    jet, spirt, spurt, squirt, spout, spray, splash, rush, gush, jet d'eau [Fr.]; sluice.    water spout, water fall; ... show more

Roget 312: rotation, revolution, spinning, gyration, turning about an axis, turning aound an axis, circulation, roll; circumrotation, circumvolution, circumgyration; volutation, circination, turbination, ... show more


Moby thesaurus: Charybdis, Maelstrom, ado, agitation, back stream, backflow, backwash, backwater, bluster, bobbery, boil, boiling, bother, botheration, brouhaha, burst, bustle, churn, commotion, confusion ... show more.

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