Meaning

(ergative) To revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on a horizontal axis; to impel forward with a revolving motion on a supporting surface..

Definitions by Sense

1. (ergative) To revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on a horizontal axis; to impel forward with a revolving motion on a supporting surface.
2. (ergative) To wrap (something) round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over.
3. (transitive) To bind or involve by winding, as with a bandage; to enwrap; often with up.
4. (ergative, sometimes figurative) To drive, impel, or flow onward with a steady, wave-like motion.
5. (ergative) To utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; — often with forth, or out.
6. (ergative) To press, level, spread, or form with a roller or rollers.
7. (ergative) To move upon rollers or wheels.
8. (intransitive) To tumble in gymnastics; to do a somersault.

Example Sentences

To roll a wheel, a ball, or a barrel.

The child will roll on the floor.

Huge Trunks of Trees, fell'd from the ſteepy Crown / Of the bare Mountains, rowl with Ruin down.

And her foot, look you, is fixed upon a spherical stone, which rolls, and rolls, and rolls.

The gentleman aimed the ball once or twice and then threw it up the strand towards Cissy Caffrey but it rolled down the slope and stopped right under Gerty's skirt near the little pool by the rock.

To roll a sheet of paper; to roll clay or putty into a ball.

The cloth rolls unevenly; the snow rolls well.

To roll up the vase in bubble wrap.

Word Forms

• rolls
• rolling
• rolled
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Use roll when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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