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–noun 

1. a current at variance 

with 

the main current in a stream of liquid or gas, esp. one having a rotary or whirling motion.  



2. a small whirlpool. (漩渦)

3. any similar current, as of air, dust, or fog.  



4. a current or trend, 

as 

of opinion or events, running counter to the main current.  



–verb (used with object), verb (used without object) 

5. to move or whirl in eddies. 





　

The attack radicalizes Maya in ways that are not immediately apparent because Ms. Dawson — 



whose intricate, imaginative performance 

equals [those] of 



Robert De Niro in "Taxi Driver" and Hilary Swank in "Boys Don’t Cry" — 



expresses them through eddies of [sadness] 

and 

rage that we can sense, 



even though they remain hidden from other characters. 





undulation 

cf. inundation (area) elucidation (make lucid or clear)

ripple 

dimple zit pustule

fret

The [metal] is fretted with the [acid].

The [breeze] fretted the surface of the [water].

Beleaguer