Definitions for revolve

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revolve re·volve

Spelling: [ri-volv]

IPA: /rɪˈvɒlv/

Revolve is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 74 anagrams from letters in revolve (eelorvv).

Definitions for revolve

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to turn around, as on an axis.
2. to cause to move in a circular or curving course, as about a central point.
3. to think about; consider.

verb (used without object)

1. to move in a circular or curving course or orbit:
2. to turn around or rotate, as on an axis:
3. to proceed or occur in a round or cycle; come around again in the process of time; recur.
4. to be revolved in the mind.
5. to focus or center on.

Origin of revolve

1350-1400; Middle English revolven Latin revolvere to roll back, equivalent to re- re- + volvere to roll, turn round

Examples for revolve

And not all of them revolve around white sins or a dishonorable moment.

In the 1980s and 1990s, blockbusters were star vehicles; now they revolve around brands (Marvel Comics) and concepts (vampires).

These rings acted as bearings on which the mast could revolve.

Somehow, everything in the world has to revolve around men here, men and their parts.

“Prison has taught me that the world does not revolve around me,” he says.

The dean paused to revolve the proposition, and then shook his head negatively.

The cogs and wheels of the machine began to revolve rapidly.

Indeed, even while he was speaking the wheels of Fate had already begun to revolve.

But the empire had extended too far west to revolve about that distant pivot.

Like the Colosseum, Jep both stands above and is a part of the grotesqueries that revolve around him.