whirl
verb
[ wəːl ]
• move or cause to move rapidly round and round.
• "leaves whirled in eddies of wind"
Similar:
rotate,
turn,
turn round,
go round,
revolve,
circle,
wheel,
orbit,
pivot,
swivel,
gyrate,
spin,
roll,
twirl,
pirouette,
birl,
whirl
noun
• a rapid movement round and round.
• a specified kind of sweet or biscuit with a spiral shape.
• "a hazelnut whirl"
Origin:
Middle English: the verb probably from Old Norse hvirfla ‘turn about’; the noun partly from Middle Low German, Middle Dutch wervel ‘spindle’, or from Old Norse hvirfill ‘circle’, from a Germanic base meaning ‘rotate’.
in a whirl
• in a state of confusion.
• "Laura's mind was in a whirl"
