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Answer for the clue "Like turbulent waves ", 6 letters:
choppy

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Word definitions for choppy in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. rough with small waves; "choppy seas" [also: choppiest , choppier ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Choppy \Chop"py\, a. [Cf. Chappy .] Full of cracks. ``Choppy finger.'' --Shak. [Cf. Chop a change.] Rough, with short, tumultuous waves; as, a choppy sea.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context of the surface of water English) Having many small, rough waves.

Usage examples of choppy.

Another couple sat, knees up, on a futon against the wall, a light-skinned black with a large Afro, faint mustache, and mild eyes, and his girlfriend, a somewhat older-looking woman with choppy short black-dyed hair who, when she spoke, disconcertingly revealed a German accent.

We are naturally shocked at the clothing of a grave subject in anapestic metre, or the treatment of a long and lofty theme in short, choppy lines.

A soul-shaking agony surrounded the spinning girls, and scream after scream ripped through my heart, and the water turned choppy from the jerks of their bodies.

I turned to Yuki now as she spoke, her voice choppy with agitation, her face corrugated with worry.

Inside, I observed that because of the inherent design of the house and the additions the Ramseys had made, the flow from one part of the home to another was choppy.

Immediately she was assailed by a choppy montage of overlit travel footage.

White seagulls soared against the grey sky, dived, and skimmed the whitecaps of the choppy Narrows.

The lead dancers are Cariocan women, scantily clad beauties gyrating beneath giant headdresses, their bare breasts flashing with sequins pasted on their nipples, their thighs glistening with aromatic oils rubbed on in the staging area by friends and lovers even while their lovely hips moved with the first fast, choppy beats of the sexual rhythm.

Beyond the turn the Mother widened, and her waters became choppy, and, as she approached a vast expanse of water, she rolled and spumed.

Then, with a final wave of the hand, he climbed down into the row-boat that was bobbing ready beneath the quay, and the sailors began to pull across the choppy water toward the Sirin.

J As the Nieva broadened out into a wide estuary, the fresh breeze became a gusting wind and the calm river waters became choppy, crested with churning foam.

Mariana came on deck the sky was gray and overcast, the sea choppy with a few whitecaps.

Innisbore, a body of water so vast that even if sun had broken through the clouds long enough to burn away the mists that lay in ragged strips across her choppy surface, the far shores would still have been out of view.

The swamp waters had turned choppy and rough, and it was all the Druid could do to keep from being tossed overboard.

She watches as the sailors tie up the ship, then bridge the choppy water with a narrow gangplank.