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tailspun

tailspun is the simple past and past participle of tailspin.

Meaning of tailspin

Verb

tailspin (third-person singular simple present tailspins, present participle tailspinning, simple past and past participle tailspun or tailspinned)

  1. Of an aircraft: to go into a rapid, uncontrollable descent in a steep spiral.
  2. (figuratively) To go into a sharp, sustained, often uncontrollable descent or decline.

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Questions about tailspun

What is tailspun the simple past and past participle of?
Tailspun is the simple past and past participle of tailspin.

Words near tailspun in the dictionary

  1. tailspinned
  2. tailspinning
  3. tailspins
  4. tailspot
  5. tailspots
  6. tailspun
  7. tailstand
  8. tailstands
  9. tailstock
  10. tailstocks
  11. tailstrike

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tailspun (page history and authors); tailspin (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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