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whirl

English

  1. 🔊 confused movement
    “he was caught up in a whirl of work”
  2. 🔊 the shape of something rotating rapidly
  3. 🔊 the act of rotating rapidly
    “he gave the crank a spin”
  4. 🔊 a usually brief attempt
    “he took a crack at it”
  5. 🔊 fly around
    “The clothes tumbled in the dryer”
  6. 🔊 cause to spin
    “spin a coin”
  7. 🔊 revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis
    “The dervishes whirl around and around without getting dizzy”
  8. 🔊 turn in a twisting or spinning motion
    “The leaves swirled in the autumn wind”
  9. 🔊 flow in a circular current, of liquids

Spanish

  1. 🔊 torbellino whirl, whirling, swirl, maelstrom

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