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waterspout

noun as in vortex

Strongest match

Strong match

Weak matches

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Holding it down causes waterspouts to spin up all around you, dancing on their tails, merging and splitting—the immersiveness comes courtesy of a speaker in the driver’s headrest.

In Orange County, a possible tornado or waterspout moved ashore around 10:15 p.m.

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“Convective storms will bring increased risk of strong to locally damaging winds, lightning, small hail, and isolated waterspouts,” the weather service office in Oxnard said just before 2 p.m.

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Sometimes they form on land, or they begin as waterspouts — a tornado over the ocean — and move onto land.

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If one of these waterspouts hits the ship, the weight of the water could smash the deck & it will be all over.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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