gyrate

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The collie continued to gyrate, thunderously around the tree.

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  1. intransitive verb To revolve around a fixed point or axis.
  2. intransitive verb To move in spiral or spirallike course. See Synonyms at turn.
  3. intransitive verb To oscillate or vary, especially in a repetitious pattern: Stock prices gyrated around last week's high.
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  • Lipstik go-go dancers shake, gyrate and get down with their bad selves on a Friday night?
  • "Magic" has some bugged out Middle Eastern rhythms and talking duck samples that'll make you gyrate. —  IGN Music
  • They simultaneously buzz and gyrate and I think they're supposed to look ... —  Cool Hunting
  • On a larger, corporate scale, this marking to market each accounting period can cause the state of your company's balance sheet to lurch around and gyrate from time to time-sometimes violently … which is the source of much complaint from corporate interests, but for the most part, it all works out. —  Uppity Wisconsin
  • Strangers lay hands on those who fail to produce tongues or gyrate wildly enough, pressuring them to "let it out." —  Signs of the Times
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gyrate:   gyrated ·  gyrating
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Late Latin gȳrāre, gȳrāt-, from Latin gȳrus, circle; see gyre.

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  1. from Latin gyratus, past participle of gyrare, transitive and intransitive, turn round, whirl, from gyrus, a circle: see gyre, n.
  2. from Latin gyratus, past participle: see the verb.
 

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/ˈdʒaɪreɪt/
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