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Charybdis

A dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily opposite Scylla on the Italian coast. It is personified as a female monster. See Scylla.

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Maelstrom 76% connected

A celebrated whirlpool on the coast of Norway.

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Vortex 76% connected

A mass of fluid, especially of a liquid, having a whirling or circular motion tending to form a cavity or vacuum in the center of the circle, and to…

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Whirlpool 76% connected

An eddy or vortex of water; a place in a body of water where the water moves round in a circle so as to produce a depression or cavity in the center,…

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Bore noun · 86% connection

a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)

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Current noun · 86% connection

a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes); "the raft floated downstream on the current"; "he felt a stream of air"; "the…

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Eager noun · 86% connection

a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)

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Eagre noun · 86% connection

a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)

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Eddy noun · 86% connection

a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself

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El Nino noun · 86% connection

(oceanography) a warm ocean current that flows along the equator from the date line and south off the coast of Ecuador at Christmas ti…

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Sea purse noun · 86% connection

the seaward undercurrent created after waves have broken on the shore

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Stream noun · 86% connection

a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes); "the raft floated downstream on the current"; "he felt a stream of air"; "the…

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Torrent noun · 86% connection

a violently fast stream of water (or other liquid); "the houses were swept away in the torrent"

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Twist noun · 86% connection

a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself

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Undercurrent noun · 86% connection

a current below the surface of a fluid

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Undertide noun · 86% connection

a current below the surface of a fluid

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Undertow noun · 86% connection

the seaward undercurrent created after waves have broken on the shore

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Disconnect noun · 85% connection

an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding); "he felt a gulf between himself and his former friends"; "there is a v…

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Disconnection noun · 85% connection

an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding); "he felt a gulf between himself and his former friends"; "there is a v…

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Give noun · 85% connection

the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length

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Gulf noun · 85% connection

an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding); "he felt a gulf between himself and his former friends"; "there is a v…

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the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length

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Absorption noun · 78% connection

The act or process of absorbing or sucking in anything, or of being absorbed and made to disappear; as, the absorption of bodies in a…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dangerous, whirlpool, coast, sicily, opposite.
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Anticor noun · 78% connection

A dangerous inflammatory swelling of a horse's breast, just opposite the heart.

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Bluefish noun · 78% connection

A large voracious fish (Pomatomus saitatrix), of the family Carangidae, valued as a food fish, and widely distributed on the American…

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Butterfish noun · 78% connection

A name given to several different fishes, in allusion to their slippery coating of mucus, as the Stromateus triacanthus of the Atlanti…

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Cabotage noun · 78% connection

Navigation along the coast; the details of coast pilotage.

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Chigre noun · 78% connection

A species of flea (Pulex penetrans), common in the West Indies and South America, which often attacks the feet or any exposed part of…

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Coast noun · 78% connection

a slope down which sleds may coast; "when it snowed they made a coast on the golf course"

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Coasting adjective · 78% connection

Sailing along or near a coast, or running between ports along a coast.

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Coromandel noun · 78% connection

The west coast, or a portion of the west coast, of the Bay of Bengal.

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Crescent noun · 78% connection

Any one of three orders of knighthood; the first instituted by Charles I., king of Naples and Sicily, in 1268; the second by Rene of A…

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Cyclops n. sing. & pl. · 78% connection

One of a race of giants, sons of Neptune and Amphitrite, having but one eye, and that in the middle of the forehead. They were fabled…

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Doe noun · 78% connection

A female deer or antelope; specifically, the female of the fallow deer, of which the male is called a buck. Also applied to the female…

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