eddy
noun
a current at variance with the main current in a stream of liquid or gas, especially one having a rotary or whirling motion.
is eddying
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present progressiveof eddy (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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How cold I am now, while this whirlpool of public feeling is eddying around me!
From Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life by Nathaniel Hawthorne
I love to be where, to and fro, Weary or eager, fast or slow, The human tide is eddying; Give me the town.
From Cap and Gown A Treasury of College Verse by Frederic Lawrence Knowles
