Definitions for maelstroms

maelstroms mael·strom

Spelling: [meyl-struh m]
IPA: /ˈmeɪl strəm/

Maelstroms is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 776 anagrams from letters in maelstroms (aelmmorsst).

Definitions for maelstroms

noun

  1. a large, powerful, or violent whirlpool.
  2. a restless, disordered, or tumultuous state of affairs:
  3. (initial capital letter) a famous hazardous whirlpool off the NW coast of Norway.

Origin of maelstroms

1550-60 for def 3; early Dutch maelstroom, now spelling maalstroom, representing mal(en) to grind + stroom stream. See meal2, stream

Examples for maelstroms

It was, rather, his work, which swept him into a maelstrom of new activities.

How few who plunge into this maelstrom of chance ever rise again!

I directed the 15th episode, which was right in the middle of a maelstrom of shooting and cutting The Divide.

The two I am thinking of were of these, typical of the maelstrom.

The blast was a stupefying white flash followed by a body-shaking howl, and it was the cue for a maelstrom of metallic shrieks.

That is the rock, that is the quicksand, that is the maelstrom.

Ruffalo, who plays his brother, is great as the steady hand amid a maelstrom of emotion.

In the midst of this maelstrom came a strange and determinedly anachronistic new novel by William Goldman.

Within this maelstrom of mendacity lies an urgent film that dares to convey the black experience in America: Dear White People.

They saw so many boats go into the maelstrom that they steered into other waters.

Word Value for maelstroms
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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