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Past tense of whirl

regular verb

The past tense of whirl is whirled. The past participle is also whirled.

Forms of whirl

Base form (V1)whirl /wɜːl/
Past tense (V2)whirled /wɜːld/
Past participle (V3)whirled /wɜːld/
Present participlewhirling /ˈwɝlɪŋ/
Third person singularwhirls

Whirled in a sentence

  • The dancer whirled across the stage, stopped, and whirled around to face the audience.
  • The house whirled around two or three times and rose slowly through the air.1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC
  • Fir candles were lighted and whirled round the bed in which mother and infant lay.1983, Robert Nye, The Facts of Life. From the entry sain
  • Faster and faster he whirled until he was like a spinning top.1970, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle, published 1984, page x. 136. From the entry widdershins
  • He escaped at last, dizzy from the maelstrom of conflicting emotions that had caught and whirled him.1922, Harry Leon Wilson, “‘Five Reels—500 Laughs’”, in Merton of the Movies, Garden City, N.Y.; Toronto, Ont.: Doubleday, Page & Company…. From the entry maelstrom

Meaning of whirl

  1. verb To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly.
  2. verb To have a sensation of spinning or reeling.
  3. verb To make something or someone whirl.

Full definition of whirl

Questions about the past tense of whirl

What is the past tense of whirl?
The past tense of whirl is whirled.
What is the past participle of whirl?
The past participle of whirl is whirled.
Is whirl a regular or irregular verb?
Whirl is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: whirl (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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