gyrate
verb/dʒaɪˈreɪt/
/ˈdʒaɪreɪt/
[intransitive, transitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they gyrate | /dʒaɪˈreɪt/ /ˈdʒaɪreɪt/ |
| he / she / it gyrates | /dʒaɪˈreɪts/ /ˈdʒaɪreɪts/ |
| past simple gyrated | /dʒaɪˈreɪtɪd/ /ˈdʒaɪreɪtɪd/ |
| past participle gyrated | /dʒaɪˈreɪtɪd/ /ˈdʒaɪreɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form gyrating | /dʒaɪˈreɪtɪŋ/ /ˈdʒaɪreɪtɪŋ/ |
- to move around in circles; to make something, especially a part of your body, move around
- They began gyrating to the music.
- The leaves gyrated slowly to the ground.
- gyrate something As the lead singer gyrated his hips, the crowd screamed wildly.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryGyrate is used with these nouns as the object:- hip
Word Originearly 19th cent.: earlier (early 17th-cent.) as gyration, from Latin gyrat- ‘revolved’, from the verb gyrare, from Greek guros ‘a ring’.Definitions on the go
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