vortical
Americanadjective
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of or relating to a vortex.
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suggesting or resembling a vortex.
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moving in a vortex.
Other Word Forms
- vortically adverb
Etymology
Origin of vortical
Example Sentences
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“A demented and seductive vortical tension was building in the community. The jitters were setting in,” she writes.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 26, 2019
But within it is the vortical power of Dustin, pulling in the laughs, the cast and the audience.
From Time Magazine Archive
The old man, interpreted with earthy humor and shining grace by Bokuzen Hidari, is the vortical figure in the film.
From Time Magazine Archive
The whole upper atmosphere was choked with dense clouds, which swirled and tumbled, and twisted themselves into great vortical rolls, spinning like gigantic millshafts.
From The Second Deluge by Serviss, Garrett Putman
But he entertained absurd ideas of the vortical motion of the heavens whisking stones into the sky, there to be ignited by the fiery firmament to form stars.
From History of Astronomy by Forbes, George
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