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Synonyms of whirlpool
water moving rapidly in a circle with a hollow in the center
- in The Odyssey, Ulysses is trapped between the six-headed monster Scylla and Charybdis, a deadly whirlpool that threatens to suck in his ship
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The first known use of whirlpool was in 1529
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