How to pronounce“whirr”in English
whatever, is from that I can't turn it off mind. And sometimes at 4:00 in the morning when you got nothing to do, that mind is still
whirring, so you get involved in counterfactuals. You start to think of all the other things that could have happened that haven't happened in life.
And, you know, people are not worried about falling off a cliff. They're worried about jumping.
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Definitions of “whirr”
To move or vibrate (something) with a buzzing sound.
To make a sibilant buzzing or droning sound.
“In a city where media companies and hospitals have armed guards, this accessibility is unusual. Inside, drivers sit and chat in between shifts, the overhead fan whirring and causing the dim electric light to flicker over their faces.”
A sibilant buzz or vibration; the sound of something in rapid motion.
“As Jane turned from the telephone she heard the whirr of a motor. That would be the children coming home from school. The car called for them at the playground every afternoon at five.”