whirl
/(h)wɝl/ nom C2En français : tournoiement, tourbillon
- An act of whirling. · She gave the top a whirl and it spun across the floor.
- Something that whirls, such as a whirlwind.
- A confused tumult.
- A rapid series of events. · My life is one social whirl.
- Dizziness or giddiness. · My mind was in a whirl.
- A brief experiment or trial. · OK, let's give it a whirl.
Pluriel whirls
Dans la bibliothèque
That first day passed pleasantly enough in a whirl of excitement, meeting all the new students, learning to know the professors by sight and being assorted and organized into classes.
“It astonished me to see him whirl around so.
The long sweep of green water roaring forever down, and the thick flickering curtain of spray hissing forever upward, turn a man giddy with their constant whirl and clamour.
“My head is in a whirl,” I remarked; “the more one thinks of it the more mysterious it grows.
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