Need another word that means the same as “revolve”? Find 55 synonyms and 30 related words for “revolve” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Revolve” are: roll, go around, rotate, orb, orbit, go round, turn round, spin, whirl, pirouette, wheel, circle, go, travel, gyrate, circulate, loop, be concerned with, be preoccupied with, be absorbed in, focus on, concentrate on, hang on, rely on, rest on, pivot on, think about, give thought to, consider, reflect on, mull over, contemplate, study, meditate on, muse on, think over, think on, deliberate about, deliberate on, cogitate about, cogitate on, dwell on, brood on, brood over, agonize over, worry about, ruminate about, ruminate on, ruminate over, chew over, puzzle over, speculate about, weigh up, review, turn over
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “revolve” as a verb can have the following definitions:
agonize over | Suffer agony or anguish. |
be absorbed in | Have life, be alive. |
be concerned with | Be identical to; be someone or something. |
be preoccupied with | Be identical or equivalent to. |
brood on | Think moodily or anxiously about something. |
brood over | Sit on (eggs. |
chew over | Chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth. |
circle | Form or draw a circle around. Encircle the errors. |
circulate | Cause to move around. This letter is being circulated among the faculty. |
cogitate about | Consider carefully and deeply; reflect upon; turn over in one’s mind. |
cogitate on | Consider carefully and deeply; reflect upon; turn over in one’s mind. |
concentrate on | Make central. |
consider | Give careful consideration to. I consider him irresponsible. |
contemplate | Reflect deeply on a subject. I contemplated leaving school and taking a full time job. |
deliberate about | Think about carefully; weigh. |
deliberate on | Think about carefully; weigh. |
dwell on | Exist or be situated within. |
focus on | Put (an image) into focus. |
give thought to | Give as a present; make a gift of. |
go | Go through in search of something search through someone s belongings in an unauthorized way. Where do these books go. |
go around | Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life. |
go round | Have a turn; make one’s move in a game. |
gyrate | Move or cause to move rapidly in a circle or spiral. Strippers gyrated to rock music on a low stage. |
hang on | Decorate or furnish with something suspended. |
loop | Make a loop in. She looped her arms around his neck. |
meditate on | Think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes. |
mull over | Heat with sugar and spices to make a hot drink. |
muse on | Reflect deeply on a subject. |
orb | Move in an orbit. The moon orbits around the Earth. |
orbit | Move in an orbit. The moon orbits around the Earth. |
pirouette | Perform a pirouette. She pirouetted and made a bow. |
pivot on | Turn on a pivot. |
puzzle over | Be uncertain about; think about without fully understanding or being able to decide. |
reflect on | Give evidence of a certain behavior. |
rely on | Have confidence or faith in. |
rest on | Rest on or as if on a pillow. |
review | Hold a review of troops. The Attorney General asked the court to review the sentence. |
roll | Take the shape of a roll or cylinder. He rolled the word round his mouth. |
rotate | Grow (different crops) in succession on a particular piece of land to avoid exhausting the soil. We rotate the lead soprano every night. |
ruminate about | Chew the cuds. |
ruminate on | Chew the cuds. |
ruminate over | Chew the cuds. |
speculate about | Reflect deeply on a subject. |
spin | Spin dry clothes. They had to spin the ball wide. |
study | Apply oneself to study. He spent his time listening to the radio rather than studying. |
think about | Have or formulate in the mind. |
think on | Focus one’s attention on a certain state. |
think over | Judge or regard; look upon; judge. |
travel | Change location move travel or proceed also metaphorically. We travelled North on Rte 508. |
turn over | To break and turn over earth especially with a plow. |
turn round | Undergo a transformation or a change of position or action. |
weigh up | Have a certain weight. |
wheel | Wheel somebody or something. The stars wheeled through the sky. |
whirl | Cause to spin. Sybil stood waving as they whirled past. |
worry about | Lacerate by biting. |
anticlockwise | In the opposite direction to the way in which the hands of a clock move round. Stopcocks are opened by turning them anticlockwise. |
circle | Form a circle around. She sat in the front row of the circle. |
circular | Having a circular shape. I received a circular from a building society. |
circulate | Move around freely from person to person or from place to place. Rumours of his arrest circulated. |
convolute | Curl, wind, or twist together. A convolute petal. |
convolve | Roll or coil together; entwine. |
curve | Extend in curves and turns. Starting with arms outstretched curve the body sideways. |
flip | Glib or flippant. She flipped off her dark glasses. |
gyroscope | A device consisting of a wheel or disc mounted so that it can spin rapidly about an axis which is itself free to alter in direction The orientation of the axis is not affected by tilting of the mounting so gyroscopes can be used to provide stability or maintain a reference direction in navigation systems automatic pilots and stabilizers. |
helical | In the shape of a coil. Helical molecules. |
kink | Form a curl curve or kink. The river kinks violently in a right angle. |
orbit | The state of moving in an orbit. Mercury orbits the Sun. |
pinwheel | Perennial subshrub of Tenerife having leaves in rosettes resembling pinwheels. His car pinwheeled into a barrier. |
pivot | Provide a mechanism with a pivot fix a mechanism on a pivot. The government s reaction pivoted on the response of the Prime Minister. |
precession | The slow movement of the axis of a spinning body around another axis due to a torque (such as gravitational influence) acting to change the direction of the first axis. It is seen in the circle slowly traced out by the pole of a spinning gyroscope. |
propeller | A mechanical device that rotates to push against air or water. |
rotary | A rotary machine engine or device. The accident blocked all traffic at the rotary. |
rotate | Turn outward. The wheel continued to rotate. |
rotation | A single complete turn (axial or orbital. The manager had only four starting pitchers in his rotation. |
round | Express as a round number. They enjoyed singing rounds. |
slew | Of an electronic device undergo slewing. He slewed the aircraft round before it settled on the runway. |
somersault | Perform a somersault or make a similar movement accidentally. His car somersaulted into a ditch. |
spheroid | A solid generated by a half revolution of an ellipse about its major axis prolate spheroid or minor axis oblate spheroid. It looked like a sphere but on closer examination I saw it was really a spheroid. |
spin | Spin dry clothes. He gave the crank a spin. |
spindle | A Eurasian shrub or small tree with slender toothed leaves and pink capsules containing bright orange seeds Its hard timber was formerly used for making spindles. Chromosomes are distributed by spindles in mitosis and meiosis. |
swerve | An abrupt change of direction. A lorry swerved across her path. |
swivel | Turn around a point or axis or on a swivel. He swivelled in the chair. |
turn | A place where a road meets or branches off another a turning. The turning of the wind. |
whirl | (of the head, mind, or senses) seem to spin round. I whirled her round the dance hall. |
wind | The act of winding or twisting. Wind your watch. |
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