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All eddying synonyms

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verb eddying

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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