Crossword-Solution: VORTEX
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Vortex | n. | A mass of fluid, especially of a liquid, having a whirling or circular motion tending to form a cavity or vacuum in the center of the circle, and to draw in towards the center bodies subject to its action; the form assumed by a fluid in such motion; a whirlpool; an eddy. |
| Vortex | n. | A supposed collection of particles of very subtile matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or a planet. Descartes attempted to account for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing it, by a theory of vortices. |
| Vortex | n. | Any one of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera. See Illustration in Appendix. |
We have 28 clues for the answer “VORTEX”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Whirling mass of fluid or air | 1 answer |
| Whirlpool, for one | 1 answer |
| Whirlpool or tornado | 1 answer |
| Whirling mass | 1 answer |
| Tornado, for instance | 1 answer |
| Spinning mass | 1 answer |
| Spinning flow | 1 answer |
| Polar ___ (weather phenomenon) | 1 answer |
| Polar __ (low-pressure phenomenon) | 1 answer |
| Mass of whirling fluid or air | 1 answer |
| Whirling waters | 4 answers |
| Whirling motion | 7 answers |
| WATERING spout | 7 answers |
| waterspout | 8 answers |
| COMPETITOR WHIRLPOOL | 10 answers |
| Swirl | 11 answers |
| gyre | 11 answers |
| Tornado | 12 answers |
| cyclonic storm | 14 answers |
| Whirlpool | 15 answers |
| Eddy | 17 answers |
| Whirlwind | 20 answers |
| cyclone | 22 answers |
| rotation | 32 answers |
| Pitfall | 39 answers |
| Maelstrom | 40 answers |
| Snare | 47 answers |
| Trap | 66 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with VORTEX (5)
The therns on their side would hasten to rescue the girl, and in an instant the two would be swallowed in the vortex of a maelstrom of yelling devils, hacking and hewing at one another, like fiends incarnate.
Chickens, of all breeds; ducks, of all kinds, wild and tame, the common, and the huge Muscovite; Guinea fowls, turkeys, geese, and pea fowls, are in their several pens, fat and fatting for the destined vortex.
They stooped in a long curve down into the golden glow, concentrating, cawing, wheeling, like black flakes on a slow vortex, over a tree clump that made a dark boss among the pasture.
His three hundred guinea entrance fee paid, his three sureties of five hundred pounds each found, his name approved by the Committee, and all other formalities complied with, he found himself whirling round, an insignificant unit, in the vortex of the money market of the world.
And still the sense of unreality persisted, cast its friendly spell over this child-woman suddenly caught up from the quietest of quiet lives and whirled into a dizzy vortex of strange events without parallel, or similitude even, in anything she had ever known.
Quotes with VORTEX (3)
Because it begins to seem to me at such times that I am incapable of beginning a life in real life, because it has seemed to me that I have lost all touch, all instinct for the actual, the real; because at last I have cursed myself; because after my fantastic nights I have moments of returning sobriety, which are awful! Meanwhile, you hear the whirl and roar of the crowd in the vortex of life around you; you hear, you see, men living in reality; you see that life for them is …
I, while the gods laugh, the world's vortex am; Maelström of passions in that hidden sea Whose waves of all-time lap the coasts of me; And in small compass the dark waters cram.
Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a vortex, as she expressed it, writing away at her novel with all her heart and soul, for till that was finished she could find no peace.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 27 times in crossword archives (1996–2024).