Antonyms for eel
ileel

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Princeton's WordNet

1. eelnoun

   the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels are usually smoked or pickled

2. eelnoun

   voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. eel

   Synonyms:
   Unagi

How to use eel in a sentence?

1. Pak Fakir:

   The Thai state is like an oiled, slippery eel.

2. David Guillot:

   I've been at sea for 30 years and I’ve never seen a shark that looks like that, it was like a large eel, probably 1.5 meters [5 feet] long, and the body was quite different to any other shark I'd ever seen.

3. Andrew Kerr:

   You can get up to 100,000 glass eels into a suitcase. And if they're leaving Europe at a euro each then that's 100,000...and then at the other end, you grow them on in a pond in China and a year later that's a million. A million euros worth, japan, China, South Korea, they are all great eel eaters. But remember, they're also re-exporting them to North America and back to Europe again.

4. Vanderbilt University neurobiologist Kenneth Catania:

   What I like about these findings is they are inevitable and yet incredible, we know from basic physics that bringing two electrical poles together concentrates the electric field, and we know from basic muscle physiology that running a muscle too fast for too long causes exhaustion. But I would never have imagined an electric eel could produce the same results.

5. Luis Andres Bermudez:

   His only movement was his hand so he drew and painted a lot, and he loves sushi -- especially eel sushi.

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