Synonyms:
rotated, revolved
Meaning: turned in a circle around an axis
Usage examples
Food and drink were most often the pivots about which our dreams revolved.
How many ages perhaps revolved, before men beheld any other fire but that of the heavens?
It continued to spin; but he never lost sight of the fact round which it revolved, namely, that he had been dismissed from the service of the bank.
And now, since both his sons were dead, his mind revolved anxiously the question what provision he should make for the government of the empire after his decease.
Different worlds of imagination revolved in the two men's minds. Theophilus Waldron thought of the children, and of his father the governor, and of the family pride.
He revolved a thousand plans by which he should be enabled to prolong the deceit until it might be no longer necessary, and secretly to take his daughter with him when he departed.