Dictionary Entry
revolve
revolve is a 7-letter English word with 9 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To turn or roll round on, or as on, an axis, like a wheel; to rotate, -- which is the more specific word in this sense. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 16 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To turn or roll round on, or as on, an axis, like a wheel; to rotate, -- which is the more specific word in this sense.
- 2intransitive verb
To move in a curved path round a center; as, the planets revolve round the sun.
- 3intransitive verb
To pass in cycles; as, the centuries revolve.
- 4intransitive verb
To return; to pass.
- 5transitive verb
To cause to turn, as on an axis.
- 6transitive verb
Hence, to turn over and over in the mind; to reflect repeatedly upon; to consider all aspects of.
- 7verb
cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis
"She rolled the ball"
"They rolled their eyes at his words"
Synonyms
- 8verb
move in an orbit
"The moon orbits around the Earth"
"The planets are orbiting the sun"
- 9verb
turn on or around an axis or a center
"The Earth revolves around the Sun"
"The lamb roast rotates on a spit over the fire"
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