Synonyms for whale
ʰweɪl, weɪlwhale

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1. giant, hulk, heavyweight, whalenoun

   a very large person; impressive in size or qualities

   Synonyms:
   monster, heavyweight, hulk, colossus, giant star, goliath, titan, behemoth, giant

2. whaleverb

   any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head

   Synonyms:
   hulk, giant, heavyweight

3. whaleverb

   hunt for whales

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1. • Hunt
   • Large Person

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1. List of paraphrases for "whale":

   whales, baleine, pyle, rorqual, tofu, pisces, bowhead, hout, cetacean, whaler, whaling

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1. Owen Mason:

   When you're looking at the site from a little ways away, it looks like a bowhead [whale] coming to the surface.

2. Elizabeth Beneloga:

   The whale sharks in Oslob have been in our waters since time immemorial, the fishermen feed the whale sharks only to attract them to the water's surface -- it's a small amount of krill, and the feeding stops in the afternoon.

3. Patrick Dykstra:

   We also don’t settle for merelyseeing a blue whale, or even seeing one underwater, we are always seeking that ‘take your breath away’ life changing up close encounter that you will remember for the rest of your life.

4. Joji Morishita:

   The solution is that we have to agree to disagree, however, this does not mean that we will take all whales - exactly because we'd like to have sustainable whaling, we'd like to have a healthy whale population.

5. Jim Serpa:

   When I saw the big bulbous head, the tiny dorsal fin way back on its back and the dagger teeth, I knew exactly what it was. It also had an odd blowhole thats farther up than any other whale and slightly off-center.