[verb] [I usually + adverb or preposition] -ll- or US usually -l-With one wing damaged, the model airplane spiralled downwards.If costs, prices, etc. spiral, they increase faster and faster.Spiralling costs have squeezed profits.If costs, prices, etc. spiral downwards, they get less, at a faster and faster rate.
SPIRAL
Meaning of SPIRAL in English
Cambridge English vocab. Кембриджский английский словарь. 2012