whirl
[ + adv/prep ]
If a large group of people eddies somewhere, the people go there together while constantly moving around within their group:
He joined the flood of students eddying toward the second-floor lockers.
She watched the small groups of protesters eddy across the courtyard.
[ + adv/prep ]
to come and go in large quantities, without becoming firmly fixed:
He is adept at placing Einstein in the stream of ideas and theories that eddied about in the intellectual currents of the day.
But what is all this stuff that eddies in your head all the time?
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Movement of liquids
backsplash
be dripping with somethingidiom
brim
brim over
brim with something
drool
funnel
leakage
pour
pour-over
reinject
reinjection
respray
ripple
spate
staunch
stem
swash
swill
swirl
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