Origin: Latin
suffix -ate
Gyrate has 4 different meanings across 1 category:
Verb
Verb
1
to wind or move in a spiral course
"the muscles and nerves of his fine drawn body were coiling for action"
"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
"The dervishes whirl around and around without getting dizzy"
3
To revolve round a central point; to move spirally about an axis, as a tornado; to revolve.
Adjective
1
Having coils or convolutions
Example Sentences
"the muscles and nerves of his fine drawn body were coiling for action"
verb
"black smoke coiling up into the sky"
verb
"the young people gyrated on the dance floor"
verb
"The dervishes whirl around and around without getting dizzy"
verb
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Narrower Terms (hyponyms)