Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun whirlpool

1 sense of whirlpool

Sense 1
whirlpool, vortex, maelstrom -- (a powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides))
       => current, stream -- (a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes); "the raft floated downstream on the current"; "he felt a stream of air"; "the hose ejected a stream of water")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb whirlpool

1 sense of whirlpool

Sense 1
eddy, purl, whirlpool, swirl, whirl -- (flow in a circular current, of liquids)
       => run, flow, feed, course -- (move along, of liquids; "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi")