It has a big whirlpool and a strong current.
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Whirlpool
//ˈwɝlpul//
Synonyms for "whirlpool" (50 found)
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Strong matches (15)
Related words (25)
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9 entriesTranslations
97 translations across 50 languages.
Albanian
3 entries- gjeratore noun (swirling body of water)
- shtjellë noun (swirling body of water)
- vorbull noun (swirling body of water)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- δίνη noun (swirling body of water)
- ἶλιγξ noun (swirling body of water)
Arabic
2 entries- دَوَّامَة noun (swirling body of water)
- غمر noun (swirling body of water)
Armenian
2 entries- հորձանուտ noun (swirling body of water)
- ջրապտույտ noun (swirling body of water)
Aromanian
2 entries- viro noun (swirling body of water)
- vãltoari noun (swirling body of water)
Belarusian
1 entries- вір noun (swirling body of water)
Bulgarian
1 entries- водовъртеж noun (swirling body of water)
Catalan
1 entries- remolí noun (swirling body of water)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 渦 /涡 noun (swirling body of water)
- 渦流 /涡流 noun (swirling body of water)
Chuvash
1 entries- авӑр noun (swirling body of water)
Cornish
1 entries- trobol noun (swirling body of water)
Czech
1 entries- vír noun (swirling body of water)
Danish
1 entries- strømhvirvel noun (swirling body of water)
Dutch
1 entries- draaikolk noun (swirling body of water)
Esperanto
2 entries- akvokirlo noun (swirling body of water)
- akvoturno noun (swirling body of water)
Finnish
3 entries- kurimus noun (swirling body of water)
- pyörre noun (swirling body of water)
- vesipyörre noun (swirling body of water)
French
1 entries- tourbillon noun (swirling body of water)
Galician
2 entries- remuíño noun (swirling body of water)
- rolleiro noun (swirling body of water)
Georgian
1 entries- მორევი noun (swirling body of water)
German
3 entries- Stromschnelle noun (swirling body of water)
- Strudel noun (swirling body of water)
- Wirbel noun (swirling body of water)
Greek
1 entries- δίνη noun (swirling body of water)
Hebrew
1 entries- מְעַרְבֹּלֶת noun (swirling body of water)
Hindi
1 entries- जलघुमर noun (swirling body of water)
Hungarian
1 entries- örvény noun (swirling body of water)
Icelandic
2 entries- hafsvelgur noun (swirling body of water)
- iðustraumur noun (swirling body of water)
Ido
1 entries- aquovortico noun (swirling body of water)
Italian
3 entries- gorgo noun (swirling body of water)
- mulinello noun (swirling body of water)
- vortice noun (swirling body of water)
Japanese
1 entries- 渦 noun (swirling body of water)
Kalmyk
1 entries- шошлһ noun (swirling body of water)
Latin
4 entries- Charybdis noun (swirling body of water)
- gurges noun (swirling body of water)
- vertex noun (swirling body of water)
- vortex noun (swirling body of water)
Macedonian
4 entries- вир noun (swirling body of water)
- вител noun (swirling body of water)
- водовртеж noun (swirling body of water)
- вртеж noun (swirling body of water)
Maltese
1 entries- milgħuba noun (swirling body of water)
Māori
4 entries- au noun (swirling body of water)
- auripo noun (swirling body of water)
- kororipo noun (swirling body of water)
- kōmingomingo noun (swirling body of water)
Norwegian
1 entries- strømvirvel noun (swirling body of water)
Persian
2 entries- ورطه noun (swirling body of water)
- گرداب noun (swirling body of water)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Wirbelstroom noun (swirling body of water)
Polish
1 entries- wir wodny noun (swirling body of water)
Portuguese
4 entries- redemoinho noun (swirling body of water)
- remoinho noun (swirling body of water)
- rodamoinho noun (swirling body of water)
- sorvedouro noun (swirling body of water)
Romanian
3 entries- volbură noun (swirling body of water)
- vâltoare noun (swirling body of water)
- vârtej noun (swirling body of water)
Russian
1 entries- водоворо́т noun (swirling body of water)
Scots
1 entries- swelchie noun (swirling body of water)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- coire noun (swirling body of water)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- kovitlac noun (swirling body of water)
- vrtlog noun (swirling body of water)
- вртлог noun (swirling body of water)
- ковитлац noun (swirling body of water)
Spanish
2 entries- remolino noun (swirling body of water)
- vorágine noun (swirling body of water)
Swedish
1 entries- strömvirvel noun (swirling body of water)
Telugu
1 entries- సుడిగుండము noun (swirling body of water)
Turkish
2 entries- anafor noun (swirling body of water)
- burgaç noun (swirling body of water)
Ukrainian
1 entries- вир noun (swirling body of water)
Vietnamese
1 entries- xoáy nước noun (swirling body of water)
Welsh
1 entries- trobwll noun (swirling body of water)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
You may have seen an eddy if you've ever gone canoeing and you see a small whirlpool of water while you paddle through the water.
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Water springs out of a fountain, flows downwards in a brook, runs in a beck, stands in a pond, glides in the stream, is whirled about in a whirlpool and causes fens.
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The boat fell into a whirlpool and overturned.
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