Synonyms for maelstrom
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : meyl-struhm |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈmeɪl strəm |
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Définition of maelstrom
Origin :- 1680s (Hakluyt, 1560s, has Malestrand), name of a famous whirlpool off the northwest coast of Norway, from Danish malstrøm (1673), from older Dutch Maelstrom (modern maalstroom), literally "grinding-stream," from malen "to grind" (see meal) + stroom "stream" (see stream (n.)). The name was used by Dutch cartographers (e.g. Mercator, 1595). OED says perhaps originally from Færoic mal(u)streymur. Popularized as a synonym for "whirlpool" c.1841, the year of Poe's "A Descent into the Maelstrom."
- noun agitation
- noun whirlpool
- How few who plunge into this maelstrom of chance ever rise again!
- Extract from : « The Lure of the Mask » by Harold MacGrath
- They saw so many boats go into the maelstrom that they steered into other waters.
- Extract from : « The Wedding Ring » by T. De Witt Talmage
- It was, rather, his work, which swept him into a maelstrom of new activities.
- Extract from : « Mistress Anne » by Temple Bailey
- That is the rock, that is the quicksand, that is the maelstrom.
- Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 » by Various
- The two I am thinking of were of these, typical of the maelstrom.
- Extract from : « Children of the Tenements » by Jacob A. Riis
- Now he was caught in a maelstrom of ungenerous and malignant politics.
- Extract from : « Ulysses S. Grant » by Walter Allen
- The ball seemed to him a kind of maelstrom in which all his hopes were likely to be wrecked.
- Extract from : « That Fortune » by Charles Dudley Warner
- Ianito's words trailed off into the maelstrom of sound that swirled about them.
- Extract from : « The Copper-Clad World » by Harl Vincent
- It is at least that from that maelstrom to this quiet green place.
- Extract from : « Fernley House » by Laura E. Richards
- But his voice was lost in the maelstrom of sound just as his body was lost in the maelstrom of motion.
- Extract from : « This Crowded Earth » by Robert Bloch
Antonyms for maelstrom
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