Whirl

Verb

 * 1)  To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly.
 * The dancer whirled across the stage, stopped, and whirled around to face the audience.
 * 1) *1900, ,
 * The house whirled around two or three times and rose slowly through the air. Dorothy felt as if she were going up in a balloon.
 * 1)  To have a sensation of spinning or reeling.
 * My head is whirling after all that drink.
 * 1)  To make something or someone whirl.
 * The dancer whirled his partner round on her toes.

Noun

 * 1) An act of whirling.
 * She gave the top a whirl and it spun across the floor.
 * 1) Something that whirls.
 * 2) A confused tumult.
 * 3) A rapid series of events
 * My life is one social whirl.
 * 1) Dizziness or giddiness.
 * 2)  A brief experiment or trial.
 * OK, let's give it a whirl.

Derived terms

 * whirligig
 * whirlpool

Adjectives for Whirl
little; powdery; foamy; continuous; social; giddy.

Adverbs for Whirl
crazily; dizzily; madly; gaily; joyously; incessantly; furiously; giddily; continuously.

Thesaurus
Charybdis, Maelstrom, Sunday drive, ado, advance, agitation, airing, ascend, avert, back, back stream, back up, backflow, backwash, backwater, barrel, bother, botheration, brouhaha, budge, bullet, burst, bustle, centrifugate, centrifuge, change, change place, circle, circuit, circulation, circumvolution, cirrus, clatter, climb, coil, come about, commotion, contort, corkscrew, countercurrent, counterflow, counterflux, crack, crinkle, curl, curlicue, deflect, descend, disturbance, divert, dizzy round, drive, ebb, ebullience, ebullition, eddy, effervescence, embroilment, evolute, feery-fary, ferment, fermentation, fetch about, fidgetiness, fit, flap, fleet, flit, flow, flurry, fluster, flutter, flutteriness, fume, furore, fuss, fussiness, get over, go, go about, go around, go round, go sideways, gulf, gurge, gyrate, gyration, gyre, hassle, heel, helix, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, hurry, hurry-scurry, intort, involute, joyride, kink, lift, mad round, maelstrom, meander, merry-go-round, moil, mount, move, move over, pell-mell, perturbation, pickup, pirouette, pivot, pivot about, plunge, pop, pother, progress, purl, put about, rat race, reel, refluence, reflux, regress, regurgitation, restlessness, retrogress, ride, ringlet, rise, roll, rotate, rotation, round, round of pleasure, ruction, ruffle, run, scallop, scramble, screw, scroll, serpentine, sheer, shift, shot, sink, slap, slink, snake, soar, spasm, speed, spin, spiral, spurt, stab, stagger, stave, stew, stir, storm, stream, subside, surge, sweat, swim, swing, swing round, swirl, swirling, swivel, tendril, the dizzy rounds, the rounds, to-do, travel, try, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, turn, turn about, turn around, turn round, turn tail, twine, twirl, twist, twist and turn, unquiet, uproar, veer, veer around, volte-face, volute, volution, vortex, wane, whack, wheel, wheel about, whip, whirligig, whirlpool, whirlwind, whish, whisk, whiz, whorl, wind, worm, wring, yeastiness

Etymology
Old Norse: hvirfla ("to go round, spin").

Pronunciation

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Verb

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 * Russian: вертеться, кружиться