transcription, транскрипция: [ (h)wɜ:(r)l ]
( whirls, whirling, whirled)
1.
If something or someone whirls around or if you whirl them around, they move around or turn around very quickly.
Not receiving an answer, she whirled round...
He was whirling Anne around the floor...
The smoke began to whirl and grew into a monstrous column.
VERB : V adv / prep , V n adv / prep , V , also V n
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Whirl is also a noun.
...the barely audible whirl of wheels.
N-COUNT
2.
You can refer to a lot of intense activity as a whirl of activity.
In half an hour’s whirl of activity she does it all...
Your life is such a social whirl.
N-COUNT : usu sing , with supp
3.
If you decide to give an activity a whirl , you do it even though it is something that you have never tried before. ( INFORMAL )
Why not give acupuncture a whirl?...
We decided to give it a whirl.
PHRASE : V inflects