swirlverb [ I or T, usually + adv/prep ]
uk/swɜːl/us/swɝːl/to (cause to) move quickly with a twisting, circular movement:
Swirl a little oil around the frying pan.
The fog swirled thickly around us.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Revolving, rotating and spinning
- centrifugal
- centripetal
- Foucault pendulum
- go round
- gyrate
- in rotation idiom
- rev
- rotate
- rotation
- round and round idiom
- rpm
- sidespin
- span
- spin
- spin (sb) around
- swing
- tailspin
- twiddle
- wheel
- wheel round
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swirl
noun [ C ] ukus
The truck went by in a swirl of dust.