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maelstrom 音标拼音: [m'elstrəm] n. 大漩涡,挪威近海的大漩涡,漩涡 大漩涡,挪威近海的大漩涡,漩涡 maelstrom n 1: a powerful circular current of water ( usually the result of conflicting tides) [ synonym: { whirlpool}, { vortex}, { maelstrom}] Maelstrom \ Mael" strom\, n. [ Norw., a whirlpool.] 1. A celebrated whirlpool on the coast of Norway. Hence: any large or powerful whirlpool. Syn: whirlpool, vortex. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Also ( Fig.) An uncontrollable agitated or confusedly disordered state or situation; as, a maelstrom of vice. [ 1913 Webster PJC] 112 Moby Thesaurus words for " maelstrom": Charybdis, Maelstrom, ado, agitation, back stream, backflow, backwash, backwater, bluster, bobbery, boil, boiling, bother, botheration, brouhaha, burst, bustle, churn, commotion, confusion, conturbation, countercurrent, counterflow, counterflux, discomposure, disorder, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, dizzy round, ebullition, eddy, embroilment, excitement, feery- fary, ferment, fermentation, fever, feverishness, fidgetiness, fidgets, fit, flap, flurry, fluster, flutter, flutteration, flutteriness, foment, fume, fury, fuss, fussiness, gulf, gurge, gyre, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly- burly, inquietude, jitters, jumpiness, malaise, moil, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, perturbation, pirouette, pother, rat race, reel, refluence, reflux, regurgitation, restlessness, roil, round, rout, row, scramble, seethe, seething, spasm, spin, spurt, stew, stir, storm, surge, sweat, swirl, to- do, trepidation, trepidity, tumult, tumultuation, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, turn, twirl, twitter, unease, unquiet, unrest, upset, vortex, wheel, whirl, whirlpool, whirlwind
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