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Adjective swirling has 1 sense
- whirling, swirling - moving or driven rapidly in a rotary or twisting motion; "a tornado's whirling winds"; "swirling currents"
Antonyms: nonmoving, unmoving (indirect, via moving)
Verb swirl has 2 senses
- twirl, swirl, twiddle, whirl - turn in a twisting or spinning motion; "The leaves swirled in the autumn wind"
--1 is one way to revolve, go around, rotate
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP
- eddy, purl, whirlpool, swirl, whirl - flow in a circular current, of liquids
--2 is one way to run, flow, feed, course
Sample sentence:
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