whirl
/(h)wɝl/ verbe C1En français : tourbillonner
- To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly. · The dancer whirled across the stage, stopped, and whirled around to face the audience.
- To have a sensation of spinning or reeling. · My head is whirling after all that drink.
- To make something or someone whirl. · The dancer whirled his partner round on her toes.
- To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch.
He/she/it whirls · Prétérit whirled · Participe passé whirled · Forme en -ing whirling
Formes du verbe
- Forme de base
- whirl
- He/she/it
- whirls
- Prétérit
- whirled
- Participe passé
- whirled
- Forme en -ing
- whirling
Dans la bibliothèque
They whirled up Forty-second to Broadway, and then down the white-starred lane that leads from the soft meadows of sunset to the rocky hills of morning.
Mowgli thrust his dead branch into the fire till the twigs lit and crackled, and whirled it above his head among the cowering wolves.
The last words were shrieked as he was being swung through the air, but Rann nodded and rose up till he looked no bigger than a speck of dust, and there he hung, watching with his telescope eyes the swaying of the treetops as Mowgli’s escort whirled along.
My hands grew cold then and my head fairly whirled around as I picked it up.
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