Tornado
Tornado noun - A localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground.
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Synonyms for Tornado
Vortex
Vortex noun - Water moving rapidly in a circle with a hollow in the center.
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Tornado and vortex are semantically related (American) in circular current topic. You can use "Tornado" instead a noun "Vortex". popular alternative
Nearby Word: vortical
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How words are described
| original | original tornado | original vortex |
| howling | howling tornado | howling vortex |
| small | small tornado | small vortex |
| powerful | powerful tornado | powerful vortex |
| Other adjectives: actual, massive, big, enormous, huge, horizontal, new, flaming, damaging, gigantic, giant, resulting, magical, aforementioned, spiraling, purple, swirling. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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An accident involving a power overload causes a magnetic vortex to pinch off, and spiral out of control into something like a tornado headed straight for Philadelphia.
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The Emperor refers to his collapsing economy as a vortex at least once, and near the end of the book Sten and his friends are saved by a rogue tornado.
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By creating the tornado's vortex, the pegasi are helping to draw water from the reservoir.
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