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Whirl

/ʍɪɾ(ə̯)l/

An act of whirling.

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📖 Definitions of "Whirl"

noun

1
An act of whirling.
"She gave the top a whirl and it spun across the floor."
2
Something that whirls.
3
A confused tumult.
4
A rapid series of events.
"My life is one social whirl."

verb

1
To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly.
"The dancer whirled across the stage, stopped, and whirled around to face the audience."
2
To have a sensation of spinning or reeling.
"My head is whirling after all that drink."
3
To make something or someone whirl.
"The dancer whirled his partner round on her toes."
4
To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch.

🔄 Synonyms of "Whirl"

25 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
cracknoun	(intransitive) To form cracks.
commotionnoun	An agitated disturbance or a hubbub.
passverb	To change place.
flingverb	A short romantic, oftentimes sexual, relationship.
twistnoun	A twisting force.
purlnoun	A particular stitch in knitting in which the working yarn is pulled through an existing stitch from front to back.
tumbleverb	(intransitive) To fall end over end; to roll over and over.
vortexnoun	A whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column.
gyrateverb	(intransitive) To revolve round a central point; to move spirally about an axis, as a tornado.
twiddleverb	(transitive) To wiggle, fidget or play with; to move around.
twirlverb	Any rotating movement; a spin.
offerverb	A proposal that has been made.
convolutionnoun	(mathematics, functional analysis) A mathematical operation on two functions that produces a third that expresses how the shape of one is modified by the other; the integral of the product of the two functions after one is reflected about the y-axis and shifted along the x-axis.
spinnoun	(ergative) To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.
swirlnoun	(ambitransitive) To twist or whirl, as an eddy.
gurgenoun	(obsolete) To swallow up.
whirlpoolnoun	A swirling body of water.
twistingnoun	Having many twists
birlnoun	(Internet slang, LGBTQ) A girl of boyish appearance.
skirlnoun	(Scotland, Northern England) To make a shrill sound, as of bagpipes.
whirl aroundverb	fly around
goverb	To move, either physically or in an abstract sense:
spin aroundverb	revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis
eddynoun	A current of air or water running back, or in an opposite direction to the main current.
reelnoun	A kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Whirl"

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
birlnoun	(Internet slang, LGBTQ) A girl of boyish appearance.
swirlnoun	(ambitransitive) To twist or whirl, as an eddy.
twistnoun	A twisting force.
whirlpoolnoun	A swirling body of water.
convolutionnoun	(mathematics, functional analysis) A mathematical operation on two functions that produces a third that expresses how the shape of one is modified by the other; the integral of the product of the two functions after one is reflected about the y-axis and shifted along the x-axis.
vortexnoun	A whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column.
gyrateverb	(intransitive) To revolve round a central point; to move spirally about an axis, as a tornado.
cracknoun	(intransitive) To form cracks.
flingverb	A short romantic, oftentimes sexual, relationship.
tumbleverb	(intransitive) To fall end over end; to roll over and over.
reelnoun	A kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound.
passverb	To change place.
twiddleverb	(transitive) To wiggle, fidget or play with; to move around.
skirlnoun	(Scotland, Northern England) To make a shrill sound, as of bagpipes.
commotionnoun	An agitated disturbance or a hubbub.
gurgenoun	(obsolete) To swallow up.
purlnoun	A particular stitch in knitting in which the working yarn is pulled through an existing stitch from front to back.
eddynoun	A current of air or water running back, or in an opposite direction to the main current.
offerverb	A proposal that has been made.
spinnoun	(ergative) To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.