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upwheeling

upwheeling is the present participle and gerund of upwheel.

Meaning of upwheel

Verb

upwheel (third-person singular simple present upwheels, present participle upwheeling, simple past and past participle upwheeled)

  1. (intransitive, poetic) To wheel upward.
    • Like a loud trump of war, breaks forth thy song, / O Milton, where angelic hosts upwheel / To battle; or like deep-voiced organ peal / Filling with awe the mute adoring throng.1886, John Lancaster Spalding, The Poet's Praise, page 78

Questions about upwheeling

What is upwheeling the present participle and gerund of?
Upwheeling is the present participle and gerund of upwheel.

Words near upwheeling in the dictionary

  1. upwells
  2. upwent
  3. Upwey
  4. upwheel
  5. upwheeled
  6. upwheeling
  7. upwheels
  8. upwhirl
  9. upwhirled
  10. upwhirling
  11. upwhirls

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Adapted from Wiktionary: upwheeling (page history and authors); upwheel (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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