eddy

A small area of water or air that moves around in a circle.

• A leaf spun in the eddy.
• Small eddies formed beside the rocks.
• An eddy of air lifted the dust.

How to use it: an eddy of something (An eddy of water turned the floating branch.)

Similar words: whirlpool, swirl

Common phrases: swirling eddy, eddy of water, small eddy

A small flow of water or air moving against the main flow.

• An eddy carried the leaf upstream.
• The boat entered an eddy behind the rock.
• Air eddies formed along the wall.

Similar words: backflow, countercurrent

Common phrases: eddy current, river eddy, eddy behind something

A food containing cannabis, eaten for its effects on the mind and body.

• He called the cannabis brownie an eddy.
• She bought two eddies at the shop.
• That eddy contains cannabis.

Similar words: edible

Common phrases: eat an eddy, cannabis eddy

To move around in circles, like water or air turning in a small area.

• Smoke eddied around the doorway.
• Water eddies behind the rocks.
• Dry leaves were eddying in the wind.

How to use it: eddy around something (The stream eddied around her boots.)

Similar words: swirl, whirl

Common phrases: eddy around something, eddy past something, eddy in circles