Maelstrom

Noun

 * 1) A large and violent whirlpool.
 * 2) * 2001 — Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, p 212
 * A hulking shape burst through the doorway and hurtled down the corridor, leaving a maelstrom of air currents in his wake.
 * 1) Any violent or turbulent situation.

Verbs for Maelstrom
circumvent—; sweep into—; —agitates; — boils; —buffets —churns; —circulates; — drenches; —flings; —foams; —gyrates; — jets; —revolves; —rolls; —spouts; —threatens; —trundles; —whirls.

Thesaurus
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

Alternative forms

 * maelström

Etymology
Old maelstrom:, modern Dutch spelling maalstroom:. → malstrøm:. → English maelstrom:. Dutch malen: is from Old Norse male:. Dutch stroom: means stream. Compare German Mahlstrom:.

Translations

 * Catalan: voràgine
 * Danish: malstrøm
 * Dutch: maalstroom, moskstraumen, moskenstraumen
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish: ,


 * German: Mahlstrom
 * Norwegian:, mælstrøm, malstraum
 * Portuguese: voragem
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: malström


 * Catalan: voràgine
 * Dutch: maalstroom
 * Finnish:


 * Norwegian:, mælstrøm, malstraum
 * Spanish: