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/ˈɛd.i/ · noun
A current of air or water running back, or in an opposite direction to the main current..
In the bow old Dobbs fought the stream cunningly, twisting the nose into eddies and backwaters, taking advantage when he could of set of current, and when he could not, paddling doggedly, not so powerfully, perhaps, as his partner, but with equal steadiness.
And smiling eddies dimpled on the main.
Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play.
It was as though the room were instantly flooded with water. After a moment’s hesitation first one couple, then another, leapt into mid-stream, and went round and round in the eddies.
He waded out, the stream eddying around his legs.
It’s a uniquely American news story, one that eddies until it surges, and then, after it has mostly receded from view, surges again.
Eddying round and round they sink.
Neither in his voiceless cabin, fragrant with planks of new-cut pine, nor along the lake, nor in the sunset clouds which presently eddied behind the lavender-misted mountains, could Babbitt find the spirit of Paul as a reassuring presence.
Use eddy when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Eddy means A current of air or water running back, or in an opposite direction to the main current..
Common synonyms include twist, purl, whirl, swirl.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
In the bow old Dobbs fought the stream cunningly, twisting the nose into eddies and backwaters, taking advantage when he could of set of current, and when he could not, paddling doggedly, not so powerfully, perhaps, as his partner, but with equal steadiness.
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