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Gyrate   /dʒˈaɪrˌeɪt/   Listen
Gyrate

verb
(past & past part. gyrated; pres. part. gyrating)
1.
To wind or move in a spiral course.  Synonyms: coil, spiral.  "Black smoke coiling up into the sky" , "The young people gyrated on the dance floor"
2.
Revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis.  Synonyms: reel, spin, spin around, whirl.






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"Gyrate" Quotes from Famous Books



... pain. At him came the ostrich, and at the ostrich went he, catching it a blow across the slim neck with his sjambock that staggered it for a moment. Profiting by the check, he seized the bird by the wing and held on like grim death with both hands. Now they began to gyrate, slowly at first, then quicker, and yet more quick, till at last it seemed to Captain John Niel that time and space and the solid earth were nothing but a revolving vision fixed somewhere in the watches of the night. Above him, ...
— Jess • H. Rider Haggard



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