spiraling Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb to wind or move in a spiral course
    coil; gyrate; spiral.
    • the muscles and nerves of his fine drawn body were coiling for action
    • black smoke coiling up into the sky
    • the young people gyrated on the dance floor
  2. verb form a spiral
    spiral.
    • The path spirals up the mountain
  3. verb move in a spiral or zigzag course
    corkscrew; spiral.
  4. adjective satellite in the shape of a coil
    helical; spiral; turbinate; voluted; whorled; volute; coiling.

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