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Gyrate   Listen
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Gyrate  v. i.  (past & past part. gyrated; pres. part. gyrating)  To revolve round a central point; to move spirally about an axis, as a tornado; to revolve.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Gyrate" Quotes from Famous Books



... Earth,' said the voice, 'and tell those who call themselves your sons that I, having created millions of suns, around which, thousands of worlds, inhabited by millions of millions of beings, created by my infinite Mercy, gyrate, cannot be an instrument to the fulfilment of a few ungrateful creatures' passions, simply handfuls of dust carried away by a gust of wind; insignificant particles of the inhabitants of one of ...
— The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions, • Murat Halstead

... gear, As puppet-watchers him who pulls the strings.— You'll mark the twitchings of this Bonaparte As he with other figures foots his reel, Until he twitch him into his lonely grave: Also regard the frail ones that his flings Have made gyrate like animalcula In tepid pools.—Hence to the precinct, then, And count as framework to the stagery Yon architraves of sunbeam-smitten cloud.— So may ye judge Earth's jackaclocks to be No fugled ...
— The Dynasts - An Epic-Drama Of The War With Napoleon, In Three Parts, - Nineteen Acts, And One Hundred And Thirty Scenes • Thomas Hardy



Words linked to "Gyrate" :   spin, go around, reel, spiral, turn, gyration, coil, rotate, revolve, whirligig, whirl, spin around



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