vverb.motionto wind or move in a spiral courseSynset:coil gyrate spiral
Examples:- the muscles and nerves of his fine drawn body were coiling for action
- black smoke coiling up into the sky
- the young people gyrated on the dance floor
Derivationally Related Form:coilspiralgyration
Hypernyms:turn
Inherited Hypernyms:gyrateturnmove
Sentence Frame:Something ---s | Something is ---ing PP
vverb.stativeform a spiralExamples:- The path spirals up the mountain
Derivationally Related Form:spiral
Hypernyms:curve twist wind
Inherited Hypernyms:spiralwindbe
Sentence Frame:Something ---s | Something is ---ing PP | The wires --- around the stick (apply to: spiral)
vverb.motionmove in a spiral or zigzag courseSynset:corkscrew spiral
Derivationally Related Form:spiral
Hypernyms:turn
Inherited Hypernyms:corkscrewturnmove
Sentence Frame:Something ---s | Somebody ---s
adj satadj.allin the shape of a coilSynset:coiling helical spiral turbinate volute voluted whorled
Antonyms:uncoiled
Derivationally Related Form:volutehelix
Inherited Hypernyms:coiling
Similar to:coiled