Synonyms of the word

whirlpool

• n. A swirling body of water.
• n. A hot tub, jacuzzi.
• n. Turmoil, or agitated excitement.
• v. To spin like the water in a whirlpool.

course

• n. A sequence of events.
• n. A path that something or someone moves along.
• n. (nautical) The lowest square sail in a fully rigged mast, often named according to the mast.
• n. (in the plural, courses, obsolete, euphemistic) Menses.
• n. A row or file of objects.
• n. (music) A string on a lute.
• n. (music) A pair of strings played together in some musical instruments, like the vihuela.
• v. To run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood).
• v. To run through or over.
• v. To pursue by tracking or estimating the course taken by one's prey; to follow or chase after.
• v. To cause to chase after or pursue game.
• adv. (colloquial) Alternative form of of course.

current

• n. The part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction.
• n. (electricity) The time rate of flow of electric charge.
• n. A tendency or a course of events.
• adj. Existing or occurring at the moment.
• adj. Generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment.
• adj. (obsolete) Running or moving rapidly.

eddy

• n. A current of air or water running back, or in an opposite direction to the main current.
• n. A circular current; a whirlpool.
• v. (intransitive) To form an eddy; to move in, or as if in, an eddy; to move in a circle.

feed

• v. (transitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat.
• v. (intransitive) To eat (usually of animals).
• v. (transitive) To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
• v. (transitive) To give to a machine to be processed.
• v. (figuratively) To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
• v. To supply with something.
• v. To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.
• v. (sports, transitive) To pass to.
• v. (phonology, of a phonological rule) To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply.
• n. (uncountable) Food given to (especially herbivorous) animals.
• n. Something supplied continuously.
• n. The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.
• n. (countable) A gathering to eat, especially in quantity.
• n. (Internet) Encapsulated online content, such as news or a blog, that can be subscribed to.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of fee.

flow

• n. A movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts.
• n. The movement of a real or figurative fluid.
• n. (mathematics) A formalization of the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid, as a group action of…
• n. The rising movement of the tide.
• n. Smoothness or continuity.
• n. The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement.
• n. (psychology) A mental state characterized by concentration, focus and enjoyment of a given task.
• n. The emission of blood during menstruation.
• n. (rap music slang) The ability to skilfully rap along to a beat.
• v. (intransitive) To move as a fluid from one position to another.
• v. (intransitive) To proceed; to issue forth.
• v. (intransitive) To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
• v. (intransitive) To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.
• v. (intransitive) To hang loosely and wave.
• v. (intransitive) To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb.
• v. (transitive, computing) To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated…
• v. (transitive) To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
• v. (transitive) To cover with varnish.
• v. (intransitive) To discharge excessive blood from the uterus.

maelstrom

• n. A large and violent whirlpool.
• n. Any violent or turbulent situation.

purl

• n. A particular stitch in knitting; an inversion of stitches giving the work a ribbed or waved appearance.
• n. The edge of lace trimmed with loops.
• n. An embroidered and puckered border; a hem or fringe, often of gold or silver twist; also, a pleat or fold,…
• v. To decorate with fringe or embroidered edge.
• v. (knitting) an inverted stitch producing ribbing etc.
• n. a heavy or headlong fall; an upset.
• v. (archaic) To upset, to spin, capsize, fall heavily, fall headlong.
• v. (intransitive) To flow with a murmuring sound in swirls and eddies.
• v. To rise in circles, ripples, or undulations; to curl; to mantle.
• n. (Britain, dialect) A circle made by the motion of a fluid; an eddy; a ripple.
• n. (Britain, dialect) A gentle murmuring sound, such as that produced by the running of a liquid among obstructions.
• n. (archaic) Ale or beer spiced with wormwood or other bitter herbs, regarded as a tonic.
• n. (archaic) Hot beer mixed with gin, sugar, and spices.
• n. (Britain, dialect) A tern.

run

• v. (vertebrates) To move swiftly.
• v. (fluids) To flow.
• v. (nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
• v. (social) To carry out an activity.
• v. To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.
• v. (transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
• v. To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
• v. (copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
• v. (transitive) To cost a large amount of money.
• v. (intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
• v. To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
• v. To cause to enter; to thrust.
• v. To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
• v. To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
• v. To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
• v. To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
• v. To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
• v. To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series…
• v. To control or have precedence in a card game.
• v. To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
• v. (archaic) To be popularly known; to be generally received.
• v. To have growth or development.
• v. To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
• v. To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in…
• v. (golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching…
• v. (video games, rare) To speedrun.
• n. Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
• n. Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily by foot); dash or errand, trip.
• n. A pleasure trip.
• n. Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
• n. Migration (of fish).
• n. A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
• n. (skiing, bobsledding) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
• n. A (regular) trip or route.
• n. The route taken while running or skiing.
• n. The distance sailed by a ship.
• n. A voyage.
• n. An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand) Rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
• n. State of being current; currency; popularity.
• n. A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.
• n. (card games) A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
• n. (music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
• n. A trial.
• n. A flow of liquid; a leak.
• n. (chiefly eastern Midland US, especially Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) A small creek or part thereof…
• n. A production quantity (such as in a factory).
• n. The length of a showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.
• n. A quick pace, faster than a walk.
• n. A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great…
• n. Any sudden large demand for something.
• n. The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
• n. The horizontal length of a set of stairs.
• n. A standard or unexceptional group or category.
• n. (baseball) A score (point scored) by a runner making it around all the bases and over home plate.
• n. (cricket) A point scored.
• n. (American football) A gain of a (specified) distance; a running play.
• n. Unrestricted use of.
• n. A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
• n. (nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
• n. (construction) Horizontal dimension of a slope.
• n. (mining) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by licence of the proprietor…
• n. A pair or set of millstones.
• n. (video games) A playthrough.
• n. (slang) A period of extended (usually daily) drug use.
• n. (golf) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.
• n. (golf) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
• n. (video games, rare) A speedrun.
• adj. In a liquid state; melted or molten.
• adj. Cast in a mould.
• adj. Exhausted; depleted (especially with "down" or "out").
• adj. (of a fish) Travelled, migrated; having made a migration or a spawning run.

stream

• n. A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.
• n. A thin connected passing of a liquid through a lighter gas (e.g. air).
• n. Any steady flow or succession of material, such as water, air, radio signal or words.
• n. (sciences, umbrella term) All moving waters.
• n. (computing) A source or repository of data that can be read or written only sequentially.
• n. (figuratively) A particular path, channel, division, or way of proceeding.
• n. (Britain, education) A division of a school year by perceived ability.
• v. (intransitive) To flow in a continuous or steady manner, like a liquid.
• v. To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind.
• v. (Internet) To push continuous data (e.g. music) from a server to a client computer while it is being used…

swirl

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To twist or whirl, as an eddy.
• v. To be arranged in a twist, spiral or whorl.
• v. (figuratively) to circulate.
• n. A whirling eddy.
• n. A twist or coil of something.

vortex

• n. A whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column.
• n. (figuratively) Anything that involves constant violent or chaotic activity around some centre.
• n. (figuratively) Anything that inevitably draws surrounding things into its current.
• n. (historical) A supposed collection of particles of very subtle matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion…
• n. (zoology) Any of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera.

whirl

• v. (intransitive) To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly.
• v. (intransitive) To have a sensation of spinning or reeling.
• v. (transitive) To make something or someone whirl.
• v. (transitive) To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch.
• n. An act of whirling.
• n. Something that whirls.
• n. A confused tumult.
• n. A rapid series of events.
• n. Dizziness or giddiness.
• n. (usually following “give”) A brief experiment or trial.