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Definition of Whirl
Whirl
To turn round rapidly; to cause to rotate with velocity; to make to revolve.

To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch; to harry.

To be turned round rapidly; to move round with velocity; to revolve or rotate with great speed; to gyrate.

To move hastily or swiftly.

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.

Anything that moves with a whirling motion.

A revolving hook used in twisting, as the hooked spindle of a rope machine, to which the threads to be twisted are attached.

A whorl. See Whorl.


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Whirl Quotations
I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices.
Gene Tierney

I was at college doing performing arts, and just spending all my time mucking about, and the lecturers thought I would be pretty good at stand-up, so I gave it a whirl.
Allan Carr

Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl of things around us.
Matthew Simpson

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Whirl Translations
whirl in Afrikaans is roer
whirl in Dutch is doorroeren, roeren, omroeren
whirl in French is tournoiement
whirl in German is wirbeln, strudelst, wirbeln
whirl in Portuguese is giro
whirl in Swedish is yra, virvla, virvel, snurra






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