verb, noun
verb [usually +adv./prep.] to move around quickly with a circular movement; to make sth do this:
[V] The water swirled down the drain. * A long skirt swirled around her ankles. * swirling mists * [VN] He took a mouthful of water and swirled it around his mouth.
Part of speech: noun
1 the movement of sth that twists and turns in different directions and at different speeds:
The dancers left the stage in a swirl of skirts.
2 a pattern or an object that twists in a circular shape:
The material is yellow with blue swirls on it. * The cakes were topped with swirls of cream.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for swirl is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is swirl a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, swirl is tagged as noun.
Does swirl appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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