Associations to the word «Charybdis»
Wiktionary
CHARYBDIS, proper noun. A dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily opposite Scylla on the Italian coast.
CHARYBDIS, proper noun. (Greek mythology) A personification of the above whirlpool as a female monster.
CHARYBDIS, proper noun. A general term for any dangerous whirlpool
Dictionary definition
CHARYBDIS, noun. (Greek mythology) a ship-devouring whirlpool lying on the other side of a narrow strait from Scylla.
Wise words
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing
in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in
the hands of one who knows how to combine them.