whiz
/wɪz/ verb C2- To make a whirring or hissing sound, similar to that of an object speeding through the air.
- To rush or move swiftly with such a sound.
- To throw or spin rapidly. · I whizzed the ball past the catcher.
- To urinate. · We whizzed in the bushes.
He/she/it whizzes · Past whizzed · Past participle whizzed · -ing form whizzing
Verb forms
- Base form
- whiz
- He/she/it
- whizzes
- Past
- whizzed
- Past participle
- whizzed
- -ing form
- whizzing
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He jumped up in the air as high as he could go, and just under him whizzed by the head of Nagaina, Nag’s wicked wife.
Marilla made no reply, but she hit the unlucky sorrel such a vicious clip with the whip that the fat mare, unused to such treatment, whizzed indignantly down the lane at an alarming pace.
As I passed the corner which leads from Bentinck Street on to the Welbeck Street crossing a two-horse van furiously driven whizzed round and was on me like a flash.
There was a strange, loud whiz and a long, silvery tinkle of broken glass.
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