Twirl

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  • intransitive verb. To rotate or revolve briskly; swing in a circle; spin.
  • intransitive verb. To twist or wind around.
  • intransitive verb. To move or spin around rapidly, suddenly, or repeatedly.
  • intransitive verb. To whirl or turn suddenly; make an about-face.
  • intransitive verb. To pitch.
  • noun. The act of twirling or the condition of being twirled; a quick spinning or twisting.
  • noun. Something twirled; a twist.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To cause to revolve rapidly; spin; whirl; turn round and round, usually in an idle, purposeless way; twiddle.
  • To move round; especially, to revolve rapidly; be whirled about.
  • To twine; wind; coil; curl.
  • noun. A rapid circular motion.
  • noun. A twist; a convolution; a curl; a flourish.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To revolve with velocity; to be whirled round rapidly.
  • noun. The act of twirling; a rapid circular motion; a whirl or whirling; quick rotation.
  • noun. A twist; a convolution.
  • transitive verb. To move or turn round rapidly; to whirl round; to move and turn rapidly with the fingers.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A movement where one spins round elegantly; a pirouette.
  • verb. To perform a twirl.
  • verb. To rotate.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight
  • noun. the act of rotating rapidly
  • verb. turn in a twisting or spinning motion
  • verb. cause to spin
  • Word Usage
    ""Training for the ballet, Potter?" yelled Malfoy as Harry was forced to do a stupid kind of twirl in midair to dodge the Bludger, and he fled, the Bludger trailing a few feet behind him; and then, glaring back at Malfoy in hatred, he saw it-the Golden Snitch."
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    twirled  twirling  
    Hypernym
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    bend  circumvolve  crease  crimp  flexure  
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    Berle  Curl  Earl  Earle  Erl  
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