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Meanings of
maelstrom
in English
Portuguese
funil
Catalan
re- molí
Spanish
remolino
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A powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides)
whirlpool
vortex
Portuguese
funil
Usage of
maelstrom
in English
1
Another country feeling the economic brunt of a political
maelstrom
is Vietnam.
2
They are the little things in the confused
maelstrom
of human endeavor.
3
Yet the document is a
maelstrom
of clashing and perhaps irreconcilable ideologies.
4
Things moved rapidly as they usually do in the
maelstrom
of speculation.
5
Something elemental and grotesquely inhuman began to form out of the
maelstrom
.
6
Each human being is at sea in a
maelstrom
of wild license.
7
That is the rock, that is the quicksand, that is the
maelstrom
.
8
He did not pause but plunged back again through the drenching
maelstrom
.
9
He felt as if he were in the center of a
maelstrom
.
10
How few who plunge into this
maelstrom
of chance ever rise again!
11
The rock was wet with
maelstrom
mist, but the Eishundo grip held.
12
Into this
maelstrom
of the Herculaneum highlife our mad ox eagerly plunged.
13
The room spun in a blurry
maelstrom
,
the naked john its center.
14
Then the signal came and the next moment he was in the
maelstrom
.
15
Yet she rode into danger, into the heart of the
maelstrom
.
16
It hardly matters in the
maelstrom
of the modern Middle East.
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About this term
maelstrom
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
political maelstrom
swirl maelstrom
emotional maelstrom
great maelstrom
wild maelstrom
More collocations
Translations for
maelstrom
Portuguese
funil
furacão
turbilhão
espiral
tufão
vórtice
voragem
sorvedouro
redemoinho
Catalan
re- molí
xuclador
remolí
Spanish
remolino
vórtice
Maelstrom
through the time
Maelstrom
across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common