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charybdis
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Charybdis \Cha*ryb"dis\, n. [L., Gr. cha`rybdis.] A dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily opposite Scylla on the Italian coast. It is personified as a female monster. See Scylla.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
whirlpool off the coast of Sicily, from Latinized form of Greek Kharybdis, which is of unknown origin. Compare Scylla.
Wiktionary
Wikipedia
Charybdis (; Greek: Χάρυβδις, , Kharybdis) was a sea monster, later rationalised as a whirlpool and considered a shipping hazard in the Strait of Messina.
Charybdis is a sea monster in Greek mythology.
Charybdis may also refer to:
- Charybdis (IRC daemon)
- Charybdis (genus), a genus of crabs
- Charybdis (comics), a fictional character in DC Comics
- 388 Charybdis, a main belt asteroid
- Charybdis Glacier, Antarctica
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, several ships of the Royal Navy
Usage examples of "charybdis".
I should be between the Scylla of dullness and the Charybdis of indiscretion, and I feel that I had far better confine myself strictly to the underground drama which was being played beneath the surface of Ruritanian politics.
And now past the mighty rock of Scylla and Charybdis horribly belching, a course awaits them.
The Stygian flood, and Scylla and Charybdis, are found among the legends of the Caribs.
Better no chart whatever than one which shows no actually existing perils, but warns us against Scylla, Charybdis, and the Cyclops.
They go together like Scylla and Charybdis, throne and altar, Being and Time, master and dog.
Scylla and Charybdis were much alike, being huge, half-sentient knots of water-currents, ceaseless flows of liquid and energy all interwoven and entangled.
Now the bellowing, howling fountains that were Scylla and Charybdis came rolling up to Triton where he lay swimming in the deep, and reported to him that they had finished the job.
Triton feel confident that Scylla and Charybdis had really departed, than he realized, with a feeling of doom, that bad weather of purely natural origin was setting in, and there was almost nothing that he could do about it.
Scylla and Charybdis were somewhere far away, and out of touch with Triton, who felt very much alone.
Then there was another upwelllng of the sea, much more slow and solemn than that which had attended the appearance of Scylla and Charybdis, She-Who-Rends and Sucker-Down.
Argo had been still many miles at sea, he had been silently calling for Scylla and Charybdis to approach the harbor of Iolcus, and to wait a few miles offshore for new tasks he would assign them.
On their right was the whirlpool in which lurks the monster Charybdis, of insatiable appetite, capable of swallowing ships whole.
Fafhrd and the Mouser thought of Karnak and its obelisks, of the Pharos lighthouse, of the Acropolis, of the Ishtar Gate in Babylon, of the ruins of Khatti, of the Lost City of Ahriman, of those doomful mirage-towers that seamen see where are Scylla and Charybdis.
Somehow they were between Scylla and Charybdis, on board Odysseus' vessel.
She would think of herself as a ship navigating between Scylla and Charybdis.