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单词 swirl
释义
swirl
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To swirl is to turn in circles or spirals, the way a leaf caught in a whirlpool swirls, or a toy duck swirls in the bathtub as you empty the water out.
Smoke might swirl up from your campfire, keeping the mosquitos that swirl through the air nearby from biting you. Or you can swirl on a carnival ride that spins you in circles until you step back onto the ground and the world swirls for a while, until you regain your balance. Swirl is a noun, too, as in a swirl of dust. It was originally Scottish for "whirlpool."
WORD FAMILY
swirl: swirled, swirling, swirls
USAGE EXAMPLES
For example, Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, is famous for its buzzing, swirling, incomprehensible traffic.
New York Times(Jan 02, 2017)
Her pale hands stretch forward from swirls of black cloth.
The New Yorker(Jan 02, 2017)
Questions continued to swirl about the death of the pop music icon George Michael.
New York Times(Dec 27, 2016)
1v turn in a twisting or spinning motion
The leaves swirled in the autumn wind
Syn|Hyper
twiddle, twirl, whirl
go around, revolve, rotate
turn on or around an axis or a center
2v flow in a circular current, of liquids
Syn|Hyper
eddy, purl, whirl, whirlpool
course, feed, flow, run
move along, of liquids
3n the shape of something rotating rapidly
Syn|Hyper
convolution, vortex, whirl
round shape
a shape that is curved and without sharp angles
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