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Whirring   /wˈərɪŋ/  /hwˈərɪŋ/   Listen
Whirring

noun
1.
Sound of something in rapid motion.  Synonyms: birr, whir, whirr.  "The whir of the propellers"
adjective
1.
Like the sound of rapidly vibrating wings.


Whir

verb
(past & past part. whirred; pres. part. whirring)
1.
Make a soft swishing sound.  Synonyms: birr, purr, whirr, whiz, whizz.  "The car engine purred"


Whirr

verb
1.
Make a soft swishing sound.  Synonyms: birr, purr, whir, whiz, whizz.  "The car engine purred"
2.
Make a vibrant sound, as of some birds.  Synonym: churr.





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"Whirring" Quotes from Famous Books



... tell him where. The car motor was whirring smoothly now, the chauffeur was sliding into his seat behind the pilot-wheel, and the old gentleman in the tonneau ...
— The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush • Francis Lynde
... fear. There was a deep stillness in the house. Outside the tempest raged wildly. It seemed to Joan as if hours passed in that interval of heart-trembling; she was almost shocked when the old clock gave its long whirring warning and then struck only one. Her first look was to the fire. It wanted replenishing. Her next was at Denas. The girl was fast asleep. Her hands were across the open Bible, her face was dropped upon them. Joan touched ...
— A Singer from the Sea • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
... a small, teetering object rose and moved away from Ultra Vires, its blades whirring a sparkling ...
— Rebels of the Red Planet • Charles Louis Fontenay
... are riven, To-day through an unclouded sky His thundering steeds and car has driven. E'en now dull earth and wandering floods, And Atlas' limitary range, And Styx, and Taenarus' dark abodes Are reeling. He can lowliest change And loftiest; bring the mighty down And lift the weak; with whirring flight Comes Fortune, plucks the monarch's crown, And ...
— Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace • Horace
... the night, and after the night the day, Fool and philosopher stirring With the day dawning, Stretching and yawning, While in each wine-throbbing, desolated brain is the Wheeling and whirring Of thousands of bats, that the slaking Of throats will not hinder from aching, No wine for the brow that is beating to bursting, But water at morning is quench for ...
— ANTHOLOGY OF MASSACHUSETTS POETS • WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE


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