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maelstrom Definition


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maelstrom
noun
    especially literary:
    1. A place or state of uncontrollable confusion or destructive forces, especially one to which someone or something is inevitably drawn.
      Thesaurus: commotion, pandemonium, chaos, bedlam, turmoil, confusion, disorder, tumult, uproar.
    2. A violent whirlpool.
      Thesaurus: whirlpool, vortex, Charybdis.
Etymology: 17c: Dutch, meaning ‘whirlpool', from malen to whirl + stroom stream.



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