Dictionary Entry
whirl
whirl is a 5-letter English word with 17 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To turn round rapidly; to cause to rotate with velocity; to make to revolve. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 11 · 17 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To turn round rapidly; to cause to rotate with velocity; to make to revolve.
- 2transitive verb
To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch; to harry.
- 3intransitive verb
To be turned round rapidly; to move round with velocity; to revolve or rotate with great speed; to gyrate.
- 4intransitive verb
To move hastily or swiftly.
- 5transitive verb
A turning with rapidity or velocity; rapid rotation or circumvolution; quick gyration; rapid or confusing motion; as, the whirl of a top; the whirl of a wheel.
- 6transitive verb
Anything that moves with a whirling motion.
- 7transitive verb
A revolving hook used in twisting, as the hooked spindle of a rope machine, to which the threads to be twisted are attached.
- 8transitive verb
A whorl. See Whorl.
- 9noun
the act of rotating rapidly
"he gave the crank a spin"
"it broke off after much twisting"
- 10noun
a usually brief attempt
"he took a crack at it"
"I gave it a whirl"
- 11noun
confused movement
"he was caught up in a whirl of work"
"a commotion of people fought for the exits"
Synonyms
- 12noun
the shape of something rotating rapidly
Synonyms
- 13verb
revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis
"The dervishes whirl around and around without getting dizzy"
- 14verb
flow in a circular current, of liquids
- 15verb
fly around
"The clothes tumbled in the dryer"
"rising smoke whirled in the air"
Synonyms
- 16verb
cause to spin
"spin a coin"
- 17verb
turn in a twisting or spinning motion
"The leaves swirled in the autumn wind"
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