CHARYBDIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Charybdis mean? 

• CHARYBDIS (noun)
  The noun CHARYBDIS has 1 sense:

1. (Greek mythology) a ship-devouring whirlpool lying on the other side of a narrow strait from Scylla

  Familiarity information: CHARYBDIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHARYBDIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Greek mythology) a ship-devouring whirlpool lying on the other side of a narrow strait from Scylla

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("Charybdis" is a kind of...):

maelstrom; vortex; whirlpool (a powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides))

Domain category:

Greek mythology (the mythology of the ancient Greeks)

 Context examples 

The small matter which I have chronicled under the heading of A Study in Scarlet, and that other later one connected with the loss of the Gloria Scott, may serve as examples of this Scylla and Charybdis which are forever threatening the historian.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)