Whirlpool

English

Noun

Whirlpool (plural Whirlpools)

1. a swirling body of water.

   A whirlpool is an instance of a vortex produced by ocean tides, or by a hole underneath where the water would drain out, such as in a bathtub.

2. turmoil, or agitated excitement

Adjectives for Whirlpool

everlasting; continued; foamy; fatal; heartless.

Verbs for Whirlpool

avoid—; drift into—; escape—; ferment—; flounder in—; quiver in—; sweep into—; yield to—; —agitates; —batters; —boils; — buffets; —churns; —dashes; —eddies; — endangers; —foams; —froths; —gyrates; — imperils; —jostles; —jounces; —menaces.

Thesaurus

Charybdis, Maelstrom, ado, back stream, backflow, backwash, backwater, bustle, centrifugate, centrifuge, countercurrent, counterflow, counterflux, dizzy round, eddy, flurry, furore, fuss, gulf, gurge, gyre, maelstrom, pirouette, pother, purl, rat race, reel, refluence, reflux, regurgitation, round, spin, surge, swirl, turn, twirl, vortex, wheel, whirl, whirligig, whirlwind, whorl

Translations

Whirlpool

Czech: vír (cs) m. Finnish: pyörre (fi), syöveri (fi) German: Stromschnelle f. (of a river) Greek: δίνη (el) (dini) f. Italian: vortice (it) m., mulinello (it) m. Latin: vertex (la) m. Polish: wir wodny m. Romanian: vâltoare (ro)

Russian: водоворот (ru) (vodovorót) m. Scots: swelchie Scottish Gaelic: coire (gd) m. Serbian: vrtlog (sr), kovitlac (sr) Spanish: remolino (es) m. Telugu: (sudigumdamu)సుడిగుండము (te) Welsh: trobwll m.