Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A whirlpool off the Sicilian coast, opposite the cave of Scylla.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
Scylla .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily opposite Scylla on the Italian coast. It is personified as a female monster. See
Scylla .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A
dangerous whirlpool on the coast ofSicily oppositeScylla on theItalian coast. - proper noun Greek mythology A
personification of the above whirlpool as a femalemonster . - proper noun A general term for any
dangerous whirlpool
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (Greek mythology) a ship-devouring whirlpool lying on the other side of a narrow strait from Scylla
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Examples
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The name Charybdis was inscribed in gold at her stern.
Sharpe's Devil Cornwell, Bernard 1992
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The name Charybdis was inscribed in gold at her stern.
Sharpe's Devil Cornwell, Bernard 1992
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Picking up right where the last issue left off, Charybdis is being manhandled by Tony and what’s left of the Paradigm is still standing dumbstruck in the Norman Bates-esque school room Tony’s got set up in his citadel.
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What Flavor Flav was to Chuck D, what Sancho Panza was to Don Quixote, what Scylla was to Charybdis, that is what a rap sidekick can do for you.
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Rhegium and Messenè where Sicily is nearest to the continent; it is the so-called Charybdis by which Odysseus is said to have passed.
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007
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This amazing water vortex sculpture made by William Pye is called Charybdis, and it is located in Seaham Hall, Sunderland, UK.
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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This amazing water vortex sculpture made by William Pye is called Charybdis, and it is located in Seaham Hall, Sunderland, UK.
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In the cliff opposite lived another terrible creature called Charybdis who stirred the sea to a fierce whirlpool.
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On the outer edge of the whirlpool of Charybdis, which is a great eddy caused by a jutting point of land on which a fort is built, and on the ebb tide strong enough to swamp a boat, Paul worked for one hour without advancing a single yard; the people all the while expecting to see him swallowed up.
The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World Paul Boyton 1881
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The part on the Sicilian side was called Charybdis, and that on the Italian shore was named Scylla.
The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations 43 BC-18? Ovid 1847
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