• v.
    ⦿to wind or move in a spiral course
    lexical concept
  • black smoke coiling up into the sky
  • the muscles and nerves of his fine drawn body were coiling for action
  • the young people gyrated on the dance floor

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechverb
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:coil
  2. enl:gyrate
  3. enl:spiral
wn:interlingual indexili:i31991

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • coilgyratespiral
  • spiral