gyrate
Verb
Verb Forms: gyrated, gyrating, gyrates
- To move or revolve rapidly in a circle or spiral.
- to wind or move in a spiral course
- "the young people gyrated on the dance floor"
- revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis
- To revolve round a central point; to move spirally about an axis, as a tornado.
Adj
- Having coils or convolutions.
Examples
- The stripper gyrated sexily around a pole.
- The tension made his mind gyrate with possible word combinations.
Origin / Etymology
Back-formation from gyration, on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix), from gyre (“to spin around; to gyrate, to whirl; (rare) to make (something) spin or whirl around; to spin, to whirl”) + -ation (suffix indicating actions or processes), further from Late Middle English giren (“to turn (something) away; to cause (something) to revolve or rotate; to travel in a circle”), from Old French girer (“to turn”), from Latin gȳrō (“to turn in a circle, rotate; to circle or revolve around”), from gȳrus (“circle; circular motion; circuit, course”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix), from Ancient Greek γῦρος (gûros, “a circle, a ring”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend; to curve”).
Scrabble Score: 10
gyrate: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordgyrate: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
gyrate: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary