whirls

Verb

whirl (third-person singular simple present whirls, present participle whirling, simple past and past participle whirled)

1. (intransitive) To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly.
   • The dancer whirled across the stage, stopped, and whirled around to face the audience.
2. (intransitive) To have a sensation of spinning or reeling.
   • My head is whirling after all that drink.

   Synonyms:

   swim, reel

3. (transitive) To make something or someone whirl.
   • The dancer whirled his partner round on her toes.
4. (transitive) To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch.
   • See, see the chariot, and those rushing wheels, / That whirled the prophet up at Chebar flood.c. 1630, John Milton, “The Passion”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC

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