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whirl, tumble, whirl around

v. fly around; "The clothes tumbled in the dryer"; "rising smoke whirled in the air"

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Fuzzynyms (32)

pivot, swivel

v. turn on a pivot

roll

v. move, rock, or sway from side to side; "The ship rolled on the heavy seas"

rotate, circumvolve

v. cause to turn on an axis or center; "Rotate the handle"

whirl, birl, spin, twirl

v. cause to spin; "spin a coin"

gyrate, spiral, coil

v. to wind or move in a spiral course; "the muscles and nerves of his fine drawn body were coiling for action"; "black smoke coiling up into the sky"; "the young people gyrated on the dance floor"

pitch

v. fall or plunge forward; "She pitched over the railing of the balcony"

rock, sway

v. cause to move back and forth; "rock the cradle"; "rock the baby"; "the wind swayed the trees gently"

flip, toss

v. lightly throw to see which side comes up; "I don't know what to do--I may as well flip a coin!"

resurrect, rise, uprise

v. return from the dead; "Christ is risen!"; "The dead are to uprise"

twirl, swirl, twiddle, whirl

v. turn in a twisting or spinning motion; "The leaves swirled in the autumn wind"

eddy, purl, whirlpool, swirl, whirl

v. flow in a circular current, of liquids

twine

v. make by twisting together or intertwining; "twine a rope"

corkscrew, spiral

v. move in a spiral or zigzag course

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