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whirl Meaning, Definition, Pronunciation, Grammar & Synonyms❤️

0 to (cause something to) turn around in circles:
- She saw a mass of bodies whirling around on the dance floor.
- He stepped out into the night and the whirling snow.
- He whirled her around until she felt quite sick.
1 a continuous and exciting period of activity:
- The next two days passed in a whirl of activity.
- I found myself swept up in the social whirl of college life and hardly had time to study.
2 the action of turning around in circles or something that turns around in circles:
- a whirl of snow
3 to spin or cause something to spin:
- [ I ] The wind came up and the snow began to whirl around us.

However, whirling a corrugated tube opened at both ends results in a noticeable tone.
He was whirled round, and his arm was broken in six places between the elbow and shoulder; he was bruised about the body.
Many modem implements are worked from the tractor with a lethal power take-off shaft which whirls round at tremendous speed.
Now it is said that, in spite of all that, a certain number of men are whirled into the forces without proper medical examination, simply because they do not know.
Whirling disease afflicts juvenile fish (fingerlings and fry) and causes skeletal deformation and neurological damage.
The lyrics are often misheard as whirling or twirling instead of birling.
My heart nearly bursting; the blood was racing and leaping through my veins; my very brain was whirling.
Large fire whirls can create wind speeds of more than 100mph km/hstrong enough to knock down trees.