All eddied synonyms
edΒ·dy
E e verb eddied
- rush β to move, act, or progress with speed, impetuosity, or violence.
- revolve β to move in a circular or curving course or orbit: The earth revolves around the sun.
- seethe β to surge or foam as if boiling.
- simmer β to cook or cook in a liquid at or just below the boiling point.
- percolate β to cause (a liquid) to pass through a porous body; filter.
- trickle β to flow or fall by drops, or in a small, gentle stream: Tears trickled down her cheeks.
- stir β to move one's hand or an implement continuously or repeatedly through (a liquid or other substance) in order to cool, mix, agitate, dissolve, etc., any or all of the component parts: to stir one's coffee with a spoon.
- boil β When a hot liquid boils or when you boil it, bubbles appear in it and it starts to change into steam or vapour.
- gush β to flow out or issue suddenly, copiously, or forcibly, as a fluid from confinement: Water gushed from the broken pipe.
- stream β a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
- swell β to grow in bulk, as by the absorption of moisture or the processes of growth.
- rise β to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position: She rose and walked over to greet me. With great effort he rose to his knees.
- climb β If you climb something such as a tree, mountain, or ladder, or climb up it, you move towards the top of it. If you climb down it, you move towards the bottom of it.
- grow β to increase by natural development, as any living organism or part by assimilation of nutriment; increase in size or substance.
- roil β to render (water, wine, etc.) turbid by stirring up sediment.
- cut β If you cut something, you use a knife or a similar tool to divide it into pieces, or to mark it or damage it. If you cut a shape or a hole in something, you make the shape or hole by using a knife or similar tool.
- swing β to play (music) in the style of swing.
- revolve β to move in a circular or curving course or orbit: The earth revolves around the sun.
- whir β to go, fly, revolve, or otherwise move quickly with a humming or buzzing sound: An electric fan whirred softly in the corner.
- fester β to form pus; generate purulent matter; suppurate.
- gurgle β to flow in a broken, irregular, noisy current: The water gurgled from the bottle.
- churn β A churn is a container which is used for making butter.
- seep β to pass, flow, or ooze gradually through a porous substance: Water seeps through cracks in the wall.
- smolder β to burn without flame; undergo slow or suppressed combustion.
- burble β If something burbles, it makes a low continuous bubbling sound.
- sparkle β to issue in or as if in little sparks, as fire or light: The candlelight sparkled in the crystal.
- moil β to work hard; drudge.
- well β in a good or satisfactory manner: Business is going well.
- effervesce β to give off bubbles of gas, as fermenting liquors.
- eddy β a current at variance with the main current in a stream of liquid or gas, especially one having a rotary or whirling motion.
- spume β to eject or discharge as or like foam or froth; spew (often followed by forth).
- murmur β a low, continuous sound, as of a brook, the wind, or trees, or of low, indistinct voices.
- ripple β (of a liquid surface) to form small waves or undulations, as water agitated by a breeze.
- swash β to splash, as things in water, or as water does: Waves were swashing against the piers.
- issue β the act of sending out or putting forth; promulgation; distribution: the issue of food and blankets to flood victims.
- fizz β to make a hissing or sputtering sound; effervesce.
- follow β to come after in sequence, order of time, etc.: The speech follows the dinner.
- propel β to drive, or cause to move, forward or onward: to propel a boat by rowing.
- bowl β A bowl is a round container with a wide uncovered top. Some kinds of bowl are used, for example, for serving or eating food from, or in cooking, while other larger kinds are used for washing or cleaning.
- twist β to combine, as two or more strands or threads, by winding together; intertwine.
- fold β to confine (sheep or other domestic animals) in a fold.
- pass β to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
- wrap β to enclose in something wound or folded about (often followed by up): She wrapped her head in a scarf.
- pivot β a pin, point, or short shaft on the end of which something rests and turns, or upon and about which something rotates or oscillates.
- furl β to gather into a compact roll and bind securely, as a sail against a spar or a flag against its staff.
- whirl β to turn around, spin, or rotate rapidly: The merry-go-round whirled noisily.
- swathe β to wrap, bind, or swaddle with bands of some material; wrap up closely or fully.
- reel β a lively Scottish dance.
- alternate β When you alternate two things, you keep using one then the other. When one thing alternates with another, the first regularly occurs after the other.
- undulate β to move with a sinuous or wavelike motion; display a smooth rising-and-falling or side-to-side alternation of movement: The flag undulates in the breeze.