wheel
verb/wiːl/
/wiːl/
Verb Forms
Idioms Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they wheel | /wiːl/ /wiːl/ |
| he / she / it wheels | /wiːlz/ /wiːlz/ |
| past simple wheeled | /wiːld/ /wiːld/ |
| past participle wheeled | /wiːld/ /wiːld/ |
| -ing form wheeling | /ˈwiːlɪŋ/ /ˈwiːlɪŋ/ |
- [transitive] wheel something (+ adv./prep.) to push or pull something that has wheels
- She wheeled her bicycle across the road.
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- [transitive] wheel somebody/something (+ adv./prep.) to move somebody/something that is in or on something that has wheels
- The nurse wheeled him along the corridor.
- [intransitive] (+ adv./prep.) to move or fly in a circle
- Birds wheeled above us in the sky.
- [intransitive, transitive] to turn quickly or suddenly and face the opposite direction; to make somebody/something do this
- (+ adv./prep.) She wheeled around and started running.
- Jim wheeled back to face me.
- wheel somebody/something (+ adv./prep.) He wheeled his horse back to the gate.
- He wheeled his horse around.
move something/somebody with wheels
move in circle
turn quickly
Word OriginOld English hwēol (noun), of Germanic origin, from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit cakra ‘wheel, circle’ and Greek kuklos ‘circle’.
Idioms
See wheel in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarywheel and deal
- (usually used in the progressive tenses) (often disapproving) to do a lot of complicated deals in business or politics, often in a dishonest wayMore Like This Rhyming pairs in idiomsRhyming pairs in idioms
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