Whirlpool vs. Maelstrom — What's the Difference?

A whirlpool is a body of rotating water produced by opposing currents or a current running into an obstacle. Small whirlpools form when a bath or a sink is draining.

A violent or turbulent situation

A rapidly rotating current of water; a vortex.

A whirlpool of extraordinary size or violence.

Something, such as a situation, that is confusing or tumultuous and is easy to be drawn into or difficult to get out of

A large and violent whirlpool.

A bathtub or pool having jets of warm water that can be directed toward a body part as for therapeutic purposes.

(figuratively) A chaotic or turbulent situation.

A swirling body of water.

A celebrated whirlpool on the coast of Norway.

A hot tub, jacuzzi.

An uncontrollable agitated or confusedly disordered state or situation; as, a maelstrom of vice.

Turmoil, or agitated excitement.

A powerful circular current of water (usually the resulting of conflicting tides)

(intransitive) To spin or swirl like the water in a whirlpool.

An eddy or vortex of water; a place in a body of water where the water moves round in a circle so as to produce a depression or cavity in the center, into which floating objects may be drawn; any body of water having a more or less circular motion caused by its flowing in an irregular channel, by the coming together of opposing currents, or the like.

A sea monster of the whale kind.

A powerful circular current of water (usually the resulting of conflicting tides)

Flow in a circular current, of liquids