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pinwheeling

pinwheeling is the present participle and gerund of pinwheel.

Meaning of pinwheel

Verb

pinwheel (third-person singular simple present pinwheels, present participle pinwheeling, simple past and past participle pinwheeled)

  1. (ambitransitive) To spin.
    • The damaged fighter jet pinwheeled out of control, the g-forces pushing the pilot so hard he couldn't reach the ejection switch.

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Questions about pinwheeling

What is pinwheeling the present participle and gerund of?
Pinwheeling is the present participle and gerund of pinwheel.

Words near pinwheeling in the dictionary

  1. pinwheel mushroom
  2. pinwheel mushrooms
  3. pinwheel sandwich
  4. pinwheel sandwiches
  5. pinwheeled
  6. pinwheeling
  7. pinwheels
  8. Pinwherry
  9. pinworks
  10. pinworm
  11. pinworms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pinwheeling (page history and authors); pinwheel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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