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Charybdis

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Cha·ryb·dis  (k-rbds)
n. Greek Mythology
A whirlpool off the Sicilian coast, opposite the cave of Scylla.
Charybdis [kəˈrɪbdɪs]
n
(Myth & Legend / Classical Myth & Legend) a ship-devouring monster in classical mythology, identified with a whirlpool off the north coast of Sicily, lying opposite Scylla on the Italian coast Compare Scylla
Charybdian  adj
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Noun1.Charybdis - (Greek mythology) a ship-devouring whirlpool lying on the other side of a narrow strait from Scylla
maelstrom, whirlpool, vortex - a powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides)
Greek mythology - the mythology of the ancient Greeks
Translations
Charybdis
n → Charybdis f
Charybdis [kəˈrɪbdɪs] n → Cariddi f
Charybdis [kəˈrɪbdɪs] n → Cariddi f


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Then we entered the Straits in great fear of mind, for on the one hand was Scylla, and on the other dread Charybdis kept sucking up the salt water.
The Odyssey by Homer View in context
They were always fight--I mean, father had--that is, I mean, WE had more trouble keeping peace between them than we did between any of the rest of the Aiders," corrected Pollyanna, a little breathless from her efforts to steer between the Scylla of her father's past commands in regard to speaking of church quarrels, and the Charybdis of her aunt's present commands in regard to speaking of her father.
Pollyanna by Porter, Eleanor H. View in context
The reader can form an idea of the numberless embarrassments which this double relationship had caused him, and of all the temporal reefs among which his spiritual bark had been forced to tack, in order not to suffer shipwreck on either Louis or Charles, that Scylla and that Charybdis which had devoured the Duc de Nemours and the Constable de Saint-Pol.
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
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