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gyrategy‧rate /dʒaɪˈreɪt $ ˈdʒaɪreɪt/ verb gyrateOrigin: 1800-1900 Late Latin past participle of gyrare, from Latin gyrus ‘circle’ VERB TABLEgyrate |
Present | I, you, we, they | gyrate | | he, she, it | gyrates | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | gyrated | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have gyrated | | he, she, it | has gyrated | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had gyrated | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will gyrate | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have gyrated |
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Present | I | am gyrating | | he, she, it | is gyrating | | you, we, they | are gyrating | Past | I, he, she, it | was gyrating | | you, we, they | were gyrating | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been gyrating | | he, she, it | has been gyrating | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been gyrating | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be gyrating | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been gyrating |
- Afternoons at Wellesley, they cranked the Victrola and gyrated to ragtime.
- He gyrated carefully so that he could see himself at all angles.
- He begins to gyrate and strip.
- The dervish gyrating on his axis echoes the rotation of the earth and taps the sources of creative vibration.
- The Titan gyrated, swinging around in spasm.
- The United Kingdom sharply increased its volume of exports to the United States in the 1980s, when the dollar gyrated wildly.
- They wandered in to see people gyrating in a new dance called the twist.
1[intransitive, transitive] to turn around fast in circles SYN spin: The dancers gyrated wildly to the beat of the music.2[intransitive] if the value of money in business gyrates, it moves up and down a lot → fluctuate: Stock and bond markets have gyrated in recent weeks.—gyration /dʒaɪˈreɪʃən/ noun [countable, uncountable] |