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 participle | whirling /ˈwɝlɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | whirls |
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
- verb To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly.
- verb To have a sensation of spinning or reeling.
- verb To make something or someone 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.
Source and license
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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