(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
1.
If something or someone ~s around or if you ~ them around, they move around or turn around very quickly.
Not receiving an answer, she ~ed round...
He was ~ing Anne around the floor...
The smoke began to ~ 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 ~ of wheels.
N-COUNT
2.
You can refer to a lot of intense activity as a ~ of activity.
In half an hour’s ~ of activity she does it all...
Your life is such a social ~.
N-COUNT: usu sing, with supp
3.
If you decide to give an activity a ~, you do it even though it is something that you have never tried before. (INFORMAL)
Why not give acupuncture a ~?...
We decided to give it a ~.
PHRASE: V inflects