swirl
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
swirl (swirls, present participle swirling; past and past participle swirled)
- (ambitransitive) To twist or whirl, as an eddy.
- I swirled my brush around in the paint.
- The river swirled along.
- To be arranged in a twist, spiral or whorl.
- (figuratively) To circulate.
- 2013 May 23, Sarah Lyall, "British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party ↗," New York Times (retrieved 29 May 2013):
- Mr. Cameron had a respite Thursday from the negative chatter swirling around him when he appeared outside 10 Downing Street to denounce the murder a day before of a British soldier on a London street.
- 2013 May 23, Sarah Lyall, "British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party ↗," New York Times (retrieved 29 May 2013):
- French: tourbillonner
- Italian: vorticare, turbinare
- Spanish: girar, rotar
swirl (plural swirls)
- A whirling eddy.
- A twist or coil of something.
- (fishing) The upward rushing of a fish through the water to take the bait.
- French: tourbillon
- German: Wirbel
- Italian: vortice
- Portuguese: redemoinho, remoinho
- Russian: водоворо́т
- Spanish: remolino
- Italian: riccio
- Russian: завито́к
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