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Synonyms for whirlpool


Grammar : Noun
Spell : hwurl-pool, wurl-
Phonetic Transcription : ˈʰwɜrlˌpul, ˈwɜrl-



Définition of whirlpool

Origin :
  • 1520s, from whirl (v.) + pool (n.1). Old English had hwyrfepol and wirfelmere.
  • noun spinning water
Example sentences :
  • It was quite dark, and round her swept as it were a whirlpool of snow.
  • Extract from : « Heather and Snow » by George MacDonald
  • Glenfaba may be dull, but you do well to keep out of the whirlpool of London for the present.
  • Extract from : « The Christian » by Hall Caine
  • They broke, and, as they did so, the boat shot forward into the whirlpool of froth.
  • Extract from : « Cap'n Eri » by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
  • But I was of no more than her own age, and I had not yet been drawn into that whirlpool.
  • Extract from : « The Historical Nights' Entertainment » by Rafael Sabatini
  • He grew very weary of the giddy rout, standing in it like a rock in a whirlpool.
  • Extract from : « Dr. Sevier » by George W. Cable
  • That he, too, should be drawn into the whirlpool and sucked down and destroyed!
  • Extract from : « The Destroyer » by Burton Egbert Stevenson
  • Funny, isn't it, how all Europe is falling into the whirlpool of war?
  • Extract from : « War Letters of a Public-School Boy » by Paul Jones.
  • You cannot fit these slow, quiet natures into the city's whirlpool.
  • Extract from : « Janet of the Dunes » by Harriet T. Comstock
  • The ice-bed was like a whirlpool with the leap and flash and play of the froth upon it.
  • Extract from : « The Frozen Pirate » by W. Clark Russell
  • The whirlpool was a cone rather than a funnel, and I had come to the apex.
  • Extract from : « Danger! and Other Stories » by Arthur Conan Doyle

Antonyms for whirlpool

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