The Collaborative International Dictionary
Swirl \Swirl\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Swirled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Swirling.] [Akin to Norw. svirla to whirl, freq. of
sverra to whirl, Dan. svirre, G. schwirren to whiz, to buzz.
To whirl, or cause to whirl, as in an eddy. ``The river
swirled along.''
--C. Kingsley.
Wiktionary
that swirls n. A pattern or motion that swirls. v
(present participle of swirl English)
WordNet
adj. moving or driven rapidly in a rotary or twisting motion; "a tornado's whirling winds"; "swirling currents" [syn: whirling]
Usage examples of "swirling".
According to scientific materialism and anthropologic determinism, man's will is an illusion, his consciousness but an epiphenomenon—a useless mirroring of the atomic swirlings and molecular churnings that constitute ultimate reality.
The fuzz and crackling and sudden blocks that had been in the human minds, the bloody, maniacal swirlings in Charrgh-Captain's mind, were gone.
On a base very far removed from the Hub, on a base securely anchored and concealed among the gravitic swirlings and shiftings of a subspace turbulence area, virtually indetectable, the monster could make a very valuable partner.
He saw the inner swirlings within force-fields that were the others in the circle.
I watch Her go until I can no longer tell Her luminosity from the formless swirlings within my own eyeballs.
She dropped into a chair and put her hands over her face, evoking the patterns on her wall, swirlings, eddies, flowing .
She dropped into a chair and put her hands over her face, evoking the patterns on her wall, swirlings, eddies, flowing.