whirl-v; 1 Senses

Sense Number 1: (Cause to) turn in a twisting or spinning motion.

Commentary: Includes: TWIRL AROUND

Examples:
Leaves twirled in the autumn wind.
Dervishes twirl around and around.
The clothes twirled in the dryer.
Ballerinas twirled around in pink dresses.

Mappings:
VerbNet: coil-9.6,roll-51.3.1
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: whirl.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
whirl_around 1