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whir

 
 
/wɜːr/ noun, verb (present participle whirring, past tense and past participle whirred)

Translation

US spelling of whirr
vınlama sesi, uğultu; vınlamak, uğuldamak
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(Definition of whir nounverb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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