| NOUN | event | maelstrom, whirlpool, vortex | a powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides) |
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| Sounds | mey'lstrahm | |
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| Rhymes | abolitionism ... zirconium: 557 rhymes with ahm... | |
| Meaning | A powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides). | |
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| Synonyms | whirlpool, vortex | |
| Narrower | Charybdis | (Greek mythology) a ship-devouring whirlpool lying on the other side of a narrow strait from Scylla |
| Broader | current, stream | A steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes) |
| Spanish | remolino, torbellino, vorágine, vórtice | |
| Catalan | maelstrom, re- molí, remolí, vòrtex, xuclador | |
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