spiralizev.

Etymology: < spiral n. or spiral adj.¹ and adv.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈspiralize.

transitive. To cut spirally. intransitive. To move in a spiral.

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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement in circle or curve > move in a circle or curve [verb (intransitive)] > move in spirals

pirl1538

spire1607

curl1791

whorl1805

coil1816

spiral1835

spiralize1851

corkscrew1853

the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [verb (transitive)] > make spiral or helical

snail1605

convert1782

to screw up1827

corkscrew1837

spiralize1851

turbana1861

spiral1876

1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xxxvi. 183 Drink and pass!.. Short draughts—long swallows, men; 'tis hot as Satan's hoof. So, so; it goes round excellently. It spiralizes in ye.

1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick lxvii. 339 Precisely as an orange is sometimes stripped by spiralizing it.

1928 T. C. Chamberlin Two Solar Families 145 The state of the material when spiralized.

Derivatives

ˈspiralized adj. formed into a spiral shape.

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the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [adjective] > spiral or helical

twine1551

snailing1615

spireda1625

involved1665

spiralled1665

screwlike1675

spiry1677

voluted1801

corkscrew1815

screwed1821

volute1839

spiriform1841

volutiform1843

spiring1871

corkscrewy1886

turbaned1924

spiralized1928

spiralizing1977

1928 T. C. Chamberlin Two Solar Families 145 A group of bodies already separated may respond to the spiralizing whirl of two centers of gravity even more freely than an eruptive body from which the spiralized matter must be shot forth.

1940 Jrnl. Genetics 40 67 The suggestion has been made..that whereas all non-heteropycnotic regions have a spiral structure the heteropycnotic regions are not spiralized at all.

1980 Macromolecules XIII. 798 Neither a chiral carbon nor a spiralized chain participates in the first two addition steps.

ˈspiralizing adj.

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