whirl

1. (intransitive) To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly.Examples: "The dancer whirled across the stage, stopped, and whirled around to face the audience."; "The house whirled around two or three times and rose slowly through the air. Dorothy felt as if she were going up in a balloon."intransitive

2. (intransitive) To have a sensation of spinning or reeling.Examples: "My head is whirling after all that drink."; "My brained ^([sic]) whirled as he went on, but yet there was a fearful impression that the worst was not told."Synonyms: swim, reelintransitive

3. (transitive) To make something or someone whirl.Examples: "The dancer whirled his partner round on her toes."; "He whirls his sword around without delay."transitive

4. (transitive) To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch.Examples: "See, see the chariot, and those rushing wheels, / That whirled the prophet up at Chebar flood."; "To-night the winds begin to rise ⁠And roar from yonder dropping day: ⁠The last red leaf is whirl’d away, The rooks are blown about the skies; […]"; "The passionate heart of the poet is whirl’d into folly."transitive