Whirlpool - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|ˈwɜːrlpuːl|
Brit.
|ˈwɜːlpuːl|
noun
- a powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides) (syn: maelstrom, vortex)
verb
Extra examples
The swimmer was caught in a whirlpool and nearly drowned.
...in The Odyssey, Ulysses is trapped between the six-headed monster Scylla and Charybdis, a deadly whirlpool that threatens to suck in his ship...
He was within the suck of the whirlpool.
...the kayaker had got sucked into the whirlpool, and his kayak was pinwheeling helplessly...
Word forms
noun
singular: whirlpool
plural: whirlpools
singular: whirlpool
plural: whirlpools
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