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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
- 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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