swirl
/swɝl/ verb C1- To twist or whirl, as an eddy. · I swirled my brush around in the paint.
- To be arranged in a twist, spiral or whorl.
- To circulate.
- To mingle interracially.
He/she/it swirls · Past swirled · Past participle swirled · -ing form swirling
Verb forms
- Base form
- swirl
- He/she/it
- swirls
- Past
- swirled
- Past participle
- swirled
- -ing form
- swirling
From the library
To sit among _bon vivants_ under palms in the swirl of concealed music, to look upon the _habitués_ of such a paradise and to be looked upon by them—what is a girl’s first dance and short-sleeved tulle compared with this?
Any attempt at recovering the bodies was absolutely hopeless, and there, deep down in that dreadful caldron of swirling water and seething foam, will lie for all time the most dangerous criminal and the foremost champion of the law of their generation.
Certainly a grey mist swirled before my eyes, and when it cleared I found my collar-ends undone and the tingling after-taste of brandy upon my lips.
I did so, and driven by the draught a coil of grey smoke swirled down the corridor, while the dry straw crackled and flamed.
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