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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | peep, cheep |
| Synonyms: | call, chip, chipper, chirrup, lilt, pipe, purl, quaver, roll, sing, sound, trill, tweedle, tweet, twitter, warble |
| Main Entry: | gyrate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | revolve |
| Synonyms: | circle, circulate, circumduct, gyre, pirouette, purl, roll, rotate, spin, spiral, turn, twirl, whirl, whirligig |
| Main Entry: | knit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | intertwine |
| Synonyms: | affiliate, affix, ally, bind, cable, connect, contract, crochet, fasten, heal, interlace, intermingle, join, link, loop, mend, net, purl, repair, secure, sew, spin, tie, unite, weave, web |
| Notes: | to knit means to make a fabric or garment by intertwining yarn or thread in a series of connected loops by using knitting needles or on a machine, while a nit is the egg or young of a parasitic insect |
| Antonyms: | unknit |
| Main Entry: | lap |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | slosh, wash against |
| Synonyms: | bathe, bubble, burble, drink, gurgle, lave, lick, lip, plash, purl, ripple, sip, slap, splash, sup, swish |
| Main Entry: | murmur |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make low, continuous sound |
| Synonyms: | babble, burble, buzz, drip, drone, flow, growl, gurgle, hum, meander, moan, mumble, mutter, purl, purr, ripple, rumble, stage-whisper, stammer, stutter, susurrate, tinkle, trickle, utter, verbalize, vocalize, voice, whisper |
| Antonyms: | speak clearly |
| Main Entry: | spin |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | go around, make go around |
| Synonyms: | gyrate, gyre, oscillate, pendulate, pirouette, purl, reel, revolve, rotate, spiral, swim, turn, twirl, twist, wheel, whirl |
| Antonyms: | stand, steady |
| Main Entry: | swirl |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | spin around |
| Synonyms: | agitate, boil, churn, coil, crimp, crisp, curl, eddy, purl, roil, roll, snake, surge, swoosh, twirl, whirl, whirlpool, whorl, wriggle |
| Main Entry: | twirl |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | turn around circularly |
| Synonyms: | gyrate, gyre, pirouette, pivot, purl, revolve, rotate, spin, turn, twist, wheel, whirl, whirligig, wind |
| Antonyms: | straight, untwirl, untwist |
| Main Entry: | whirl |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | spin around |
| Synonyms: | circle, eddy, gyrate, gyre, pirouette, pivot, purl, reel, revolve, roll, rotate, swirl, swoosh, turn, turn around, twirl, twist, wheel, whir |
| Antonyms: | straighten |
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