gyrate

Meanings

Verb

  • To revolve round a central point; to move spirally about an axis, as a tornado; to revolve.

Adjective

Origin

  • Back-formed from gyration, from gyre, borrowed from Latin gȳrāre, from Ancient Greek γῦρος.

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