gyrate
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 10
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- 10
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- 6
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Definition of gyrate
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
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(intransitive)To revolve round a central point; to move spirally about an axis, as a tornado.
“The stripper gyrated sexily around a pole.”
“Many companies built up pretariff inventories, and gyrating tariff rates make it tricky for retailers to set prices.”
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verb
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(intransitive)To revolve round a central point; to move spirally about an axis, as a tornado.
“The stripper gyrated sexily around a pole.”
“Many companies built up pretariff inventories, and gyrating tariff rates make it tricky for retailers to set prices.”
adj
- Having coils or convolutions.
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Etymology
Back-formation from gyration, on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix), from gyre (“to spin around; to gyrate, to whirl; (rare) to make (something) spin or whirl around; to spin, to…
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Back-formation from gyration, on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix), from gyre (“to spin around; to gyrate, to whirl; (rare) to make (something) spin or whirl around; to spin, to whirl”) + -ation (suffix indicating actions or processes), further from Late Middle English giren (“to turn (something) away; to cause (something) to revolve or rotate; to travel in a circle”), from Old French girer (“to turn”), from Latin gȳrō (“to turn in a circle, rotate; to circle or revolve around”), from gȳrus (“circle; circular motion; circuit, course”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix), from Ancient Greek γῦρος (gûros, “a circle, a ring”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend; to curve”). By surface analysis, gyre + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Words you can make from gyrate
79 playable · top: GAYER (9 pts)
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35 words- GAY 7 pts
- GEY 7 pts
- YAG 7 pts
- AYE 6 pts
- RAY 6 pts
- RYA 6 pts
- RYE 6 pts
- TRY 6 pts
- TYE 6 pts
- YAR 6 pts
- YEA 6 pts
- YER 6 pts
- YET 6 pts
- AGE 4 pts
- ERG 4 pts
- GAE 4 pts
- GAR 4 pts
- GAT 4 pts
- GET 4 pts
- RAG 4 pts
- REG 4 pts
- TAG 4 pts
- TEG 4 pts
- ARE 3 pts
- ART 3 pts
- ATE 3 pts
- EAR 3 pts
- EAT 3 pts
- ERA 3 pts
- ETA 3 pts
- RAT 3 pts
- RET 3 pts
- TAE 3 pts
- TAR 3 pts
- TEA 3 pts
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