Crossword-Solution: WHIR 4 letters, 109 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word Word Type Definition
Whir v. i. To whirl round, or revolve, with a whizzing noise; to fly
or more quickly with a buzzing or whizzing sound; to whiz.
Whir v. t. To hurry a long with a whizzing sound.
Whir n. A buzzing or whizzing sound produced by rapid or whirling
motion; as, the whir of a partridge; the whir of a spinning wheel.

We have 109 clues for the answer “WHIR”

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Blade sound 1 answer
Blender blade's sound 1 answer
Buzz kin 1 answer
Buzzing sound from spinning 1 answer
Computer's sound 1 answer
Cricket cry 1 answer
Drone from a drone 1 answer
Drone of a drone, say 1 answer
Drone sound 1 answer
Electric fan noise 1 answer
Electric fan's noise 1 answer
Electric-fan sound 1 answer
Emulate a blender 1 answer
Engine's noise 1 answer
Fan's production 1 answer
Fan's roar 1 answer
Going-around sound 1 answer
Helicopter motion 1 answer
Helicopter rotor sound 1 answer
Helicopter's sound 1 answer
Hum from a fan 1 answer
Humming motor sound 1 answer
Hummingbird motion 1 answer
Hummingbird sound 1 answer
Indiana Jones' tool 1 answer
Lawnmower sound 1 answer
Machinery noise 1 answer
Make a hum 1 answer
Mixer noise 1 answer
Moving-around sound 1 answer
Noise from the fans? 1 answer
Propeller noise 1 answer
Result of a quick revolution 1 answer
Revolve with a humming sound 1 answer
Revolve, as a fan 1 answer
Rotor noise 1 answer
Run like an engine 1 answer
Soft motor sound, as from a spinning fan 1 answer
Sound from a propeller 1 answer
Sound like a drone 1 answer
Sound like a fan 1 answer
Sound made by helicopter rotors 1 answer
Sound of a blender blade 1 answer
Sound of a helicopter blade 1 answer
Sound of a small fan 1 answer
Sound of an active blender 1 answer
Sound of an electric fan 1 answer
Sound of flight. 1 answer
Sound of spinning 1 answer
Sound of spinning blades 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with WHIR (5)

There was little sound, and none agreeable save the whir of the ship’s sewing machine at which Smee sat, ever industrious and obliging, the essence of the commonplace, pathetic Smee.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
Not supposing it to be only a picture, she flew towards it with a loud whir and unwittingly dashed against the signboard, jarring herself terribly.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
She could lie there hour after hour in the sun and listen to the strident whir of the big locusts, and to the light, ironical laughter of the quaking asps.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
The whir of motors, stricken through with calls Of playing boys, floats up at intervals; But all these noises blur to one long moan.
A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass Amy Lowell 2008
With a whir and a twang the elastic wood flung upwards, and the bound man was shot away from its tip with the speed of a lightning flash.
The Lost Continent C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne 2008

Quotes with WHIR (3)

She had felt good for a few moments, racing across the face of the hill on her old bike, but the happy feeling had burned itself out and left behind a thin, cold rage. She was no longer entirely sure who she was angry with though. Her anger didn't have a fixed point. It was a soft whir of emotion to match the soft whir of the spokes.
Joe Hill
New York is a granite beehive, where people jostle and whir like molecules in an overheated jar. Houston is six suburbs in search of a center.
Nigel Goslin
There is a particular whir of agitation about female hunger, a low-level thrumming of shoulds and shouldn'ts and can'ts and wants that can be so chronic and familiar it becomes a kind of feminine Muzak, easy to dismiss, or to tune out altogether, even if you're actively participating in it.
Caroline Knapp
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 163 times in crossword archives (1954–2025).