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

1. transitive verb. To turn round rapidly; to cause to rotate with velocity; to make to revolve.
2. transitive verb. To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch; to harry.
3. intransitive verb. To be turned round rapidly; to move round with velocity; to revolve or rotate with great speed; to gyrate.
4. intransitive verb. To move hastily or swiftly.
5. transitive 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.
6. transitive verb. Anything that moves with a whirling motion.
7. transitive verb. A revolving hook used in twisting, as the hooked spindle of a rope machine, to which the threads to be twisted are attached.
8. transitive verb. A whorl. See Whorl.
9. noun. the act of rotating rapidly

   "he gave the crank a spin"

   "it broke off after much twisting"

   Synonyms: spin, twirl, twist, twisting

10. noun. a usually brief attempt

    "he took a crack at it"

    "I gave it a whirl"

    Synonyms: crack, fling, go, offer, pass

11. noun. confused movement

    "he was caught up in a whirl of work"

    "a commotion of people fought for the exits"

    Synonyms: commotion

12. noun. the shape of something rotating rapidly

    Synonyms: convolution, swirl, vortex

13. verb. revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis

    "The dervishes whirl around and around without getting dizzy"

    Synonyms: gyrate, reel, spin

14. verb. flow in a circular current, of liquids

    Synonyms: eddy, purl, swirl, whirlpool

15. verb. fly around

    "The clothes tumbled in the dryer"

    "rising smoke whirled in the air"

    Synonyms: tumble

16. verb. cause to spin

    "spin a coin"

    Synonyms: birl, spin, twirl

17. verb. turn in a twisting or spinning motion

    "The leaves swirled in the autumn wind"

    Synonyms: swirl, twiddle, twirl

Synonyms

spin, twirl, twist, twisting, crack, fling, go, offer, pass, commotion, convolution, swirl, vortex, gyrate, reel, eddy, purl, whirlpool, tumble, birl, twiddle

Common word forms

whirls, whirled, whirler, whirling

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