Meaning

4 senses

  1. (transitive)To transport someone or something to various locations by pushing a wheeled transporter such as a wheelchair or wheelbarrow.

  2. (figuratively, intransitive)To change direction quickly, turn, pivot, whirl around.

    change directions as if revolving on a pivot

  3. (figuratively, transitive)To cause to change direction quickly, turn.

  4. (intransitive)In dancing, when a couple, holding hands, turns around 180 degrees, with the left hand dancer moving backward and the right hand dancer moving forward.

Examples

3 sentences

  1. Spin the wheel around.

    ruПоверните колесо. — sharptoothed

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  2. The wheels turned around.

    deDie Räder drehten sich. — Waldelfe

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  3. If you whip the steering wheel around like that on a snowy road, the car is going to go into a slide.

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Forms

wheels around, wheeling around, wheeled around, wheeled around
Base formwheel around · to wheel around
3rd person singularwheels around
Present participlewheeling around
Past simplewheeled around
Past participlewheeled around

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theywheel around
he, she, itwheels around

Past simpleLesson

all personswheeled around

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave wheeled around
he, she, ithas wheeled around

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill wheel around

Phrasal verbs

4 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

2 synonyms
wheel about
Close in meaning
  • change directions as if revolving on a pivot:wheel
  • wheel somebody or something:wheel

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
wheatB2wheelA1wheelbarrowwheelchairA2
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