Word.ws English Dictionary

upwhirl

upwhirl verb: to rise upward in a whirl.

Verb

upwhirl (third-person singular simple present upwhirls, present participle upwhirling, simple past and past participle upwhirled)

  1. (intransitive) To rise upward in a whirl.
  2. (transitive) To raise upward with a whirling motion.

Forms of upwhirl

third-person singular presentupwhirls
present participleupwhirling
past participleupwhirled
pastupwhirled

Origin of upwhirl

From up- + whirl.

Questions about upwhirl

What does upwhirl mean?
Upwhirl means to rise upward in a whirl.
What part of speech is upwhirl?
Upwhirl is a verb.
What is the past tense of upwhirl?
The past tense of upwhirl is upwhirled.

Words near upwhirl in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: upwhirl (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “upwhirl.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/upwhirl. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.