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upwhirr

upwhirr verb: to rise with a whirring sound.

Verb

upwhirr (third-person singular simple present upwhirrs, present participle upwhirring, simple past and past participle upwhirred)

  1. (intransitive, rare) To rise with a whirring sound.
    • Moreover, he did not shy at things lying in the road or rabbits darting from bushes or at the upwhirring of birds.1924, Zane Grey, The Call of the Canyon
    • […] spearing the wild turkeys gossiping stupidly in a line along the branches, flushing the partridges, wing-shooting as they upwhirred […]1977, Terrence Kilpatrick, Swimming Man Burning, page 122

Forms of upwhirr

third-person singular presentupwhirrs
present participleupwhirring
past participleupwhirred
pastupwhirred

Origin of upwhirr

From up- + whirr.

Questions about upwhirr

What does upwhirr mean?
Upwhirr means to rise with a whirring sound.
What part of speech is upwhirr?
Upwhirr is a verb.
What is the past tense of upwhirr?
The past tense of upwhirr is upwhirred.

Words near upwhirr in the dictionary

  1. upwheels
  2. upwhirl
  3. upwhirled
  4. upwhirling
  5. upwhirls
  6. upwhirr
  7. upwhirred
  8. upwhirring
  9. upwhirrs
  10. upwind
  11. upwinding

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