MAELSTROM as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • a powerful circular current of water (usually the resulting of conflicting tides)
   Synonym(s)
   • vortex (what does vortex mean?)
   • whirlpool (what does whirlpool mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) maelstrom is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • current (what does current mean?)
   • stream (what does stream mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • Charybdis (what does Charybdis mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • eddy (what does eddy mean?)
   • purl (what does purl mean?)
   • whirlpool (what does whirlpool mean?)
   • swirl (what does swirl mean?)
   • whirl (what does whirl mean?)