Weather
Synonyms for swirl
The synonym for swirl recorded in this bank is eddy, in the sense "to move in a twisting, circular pattern". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for swirl
- eddyverb, in the sense "to move in a twisting, circular pattern"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and swirl carries one sense so far.
to move in a twisting, circular pattern
Snow begins to swirl around the streetlights, catching the wind in tight little funnels.
The true synonym
eddy
Same sentence, swapped: Snow begins to eddy around the streetlights, catching the wind in tight little funnels.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- settle
- melt
- pile
Where swirl turns up in the game
swirl is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where swirl is the trap
- dribbleverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is filter, in the sense "run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream", so swirl is there to be ruled out.
Play swirl
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so swirl reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because weather is the company swirl keeps.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. swirl carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.