Another word for eddy
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Verb
To move or cause to move like a rapid rotary current of liquid
- To rotate rapidly about a center or an axis; spin.
- To move while rotating or turning about:
- To turn rapidly, changing direction; wheel:
- To move with a twisting or whirling motion; eddy.
- To be dizzy or disoriented.
- To be arranged in a spiral, whorl, or twist.
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Another word for eddy
Noun
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- A deep narrow passage with steep rocky sides; a ravine.
- A narrow entrance into the outwork of a fortification.
- The throat; the gullet:
- Water held or pushed back by or as if by a dam or current.
- A body of water thus formed.
- A place or situation regarded as isolated, stagnant, or backward:
- A backward flow of water, as from the action of oars.
- A backward flow of air, as from the propeller of an aircraft.
- A result of an event; an aftermath.
- A current that flows in an opposite direction to the flow of another current.
- To move with a twisting or whirling motion; eddy.
- To be dizzy or disoriented.
- To be arranged in a spiral, whorl, or twist.
- plural form of rapid
- A whirling mass of water or air that sucks everything near it toward its center.
- A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it, and hence being inescapable or destructive:
- A violent or turbulent situation:
- A whirlpool of extraordinary size or violence.
- A rapidly rotating current of water; a vortex.
- Something, such as a situation, that is confusing or tumultuous and is easy to be drawn into or difficult to get out of:
- A bathtub or pool having jets of warm water that can be directed toward a body part as for therapeutic purposes.
- To rotate rapidly about a center or an axis; spin.
- To move while rotating or turning about:
- To turn rapidly, changing direction; wheel:
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