gyrates

verb

present tense third-person singular of gyrate
as in rotates
to move in circles around an axis or center the gyroscope got its name for the way the disk inside the instrument gyrates around an axis

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Recent Examples of gyrates In his weirdest picture—the late, baroque, campy Allegory of Faith—a bug-eyed female figure is shown clutching her chest, one foot balanced perilously on a globe, while a snake gushing blood from its jaws gyrates in the foreground. — Clare Bucknell, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gyrates
  1. rotates
  2. revolves
  3. spins
Verb
  • This divergence reflects both short-term irregularities in how fast Earth rotates, and a very gradual, long-term slowdown of Earth’s rotation, caused primarily by the Moon’s gravitational pull on Earth’s oceans.
    — Vahe Peroomian, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2026
  • The café rotates beans from young farmers across Colombia, allowing guests to experience the country’s diverse growing regions through different filter coffees.
    — Nikkita Nair, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of rotates
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  • Lialina’s practice as an artist and archivist revolves the uneven promises of permanence, loss, maintenance, and distribution that the internet, in its many formats and phases, represents.
    — Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Repayment happens as customers settle their invoices, and the facility essentially revolves, with fresh invoices replacing those that have been paid off.
    — Amit Singhania, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of revolves
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  • The show spins a fictional intelligence story around the Doolittle Raid of 1942.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 10 Oct. 2026
  • As the star spins, the magnetic field coming out of the surface catches that wind and sweeps it up.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of spins

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“Gyrates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gyrates. Accessed 14 Oct. 2026.

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