Clues for the word "ROTATE"
We've had 97 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 258 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on December 28, 2025.
Definition of rotate
- a. - Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped; as, a rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla, i.e., a monopetalous corolla with a flattish border, and no tube or a very short one.
- v. i. - To turn, as a wheel, round an axis; to revolve.
- v. i. - To perform any act, function, or operation in turn, to hold office in turn; as, to rotate in office.
- v. i. - To cause to turn round or revolve, as a wheel around an axle.
- v. i. - To cause to succeed in turn; esp., to cause to succeed some one, or to be succeeded by some one, in office.
Referring Clues
- What some fans do
- Take for a spin?
- Take turns
- Go around
- Spin
- Shift, in volleyball
- Turn around
- Go round and round
- Make the rounds?
- "Turn, Turn, Turn" originally covered by A&E (6)
- Make alternations
- Do tire maintenance
- Move like Mercury
- Work in shifts
- Reposition, as tires
- Go around and around
- What wheels do on an axis
- Circumvolve
- Interchange Goodyears
- Rearrange tires
- Turn
- Go in circles
- Spin on an axis
- Do routine tire maintenance
- Take a spin?
- Take a turn
- Perform a pirouette, say
- Photoshop command
- Revolve
- Turn about
- Twirl
- Turn on an axis
- Move around an axis
- Move like a tornado
- Exchange cyclically
- What some spits do
- Do like a bit
- What planets do
- Rubbish tucked into roll
- Spin around
- Switch around, as tires
- Spin round
- Pirouette
- Go round and list half the team
- To tear madly round and round!
- Turn from pet? A tortoise doing somersault!
- Go round some rooms at the art gallery
- Go round or up to an art gallery
- Go round arranging a treat out of love
- To tear around in a whirl?
- Take turns to have books in class
- Wheel corrosion consumed
- Go round
- Go round with a list at half-term
- Wheel to turn in class
- Decay eroded pivot
- In turn it's consumed with decay
- Go off, having scoffed roll
- Junk consumed has to go round
- Move like 14 Down
- Move a la fan blades
- Change places, as in a volleyball game
- Swap (players) in turn
- Turn, or turned, junk east
- Spin used to set up alternative gallery
- Go round with books in class
- Classify books in turn
- Take in order, including books in price
- Go round for crumble before tea, for a change
- 'Er, to a T? (anag)
- Move round centre
- Turn or turning by gallery
- Go round (run round) gallery
- Go round in foxtrot at 'Empress'
- Tripe consumed in turn
- Reposition tires
- Corrosion wore away pivot
- Whirl
- Revolve, spin
- Photo editing option
- Turn back to scold about
- Have angular velocity
- To tear round and round?
- Spin, revolve
- Sub-in, as athletes
- Change from portrait to landscape, say
- What blades on windmills do
- Move around
- Turn clockwise or counterclockwise
- Take turns?
- Make the rounds?
- To tear madly round and round?
- To tear around in a whirl?
- Change positions, as in volleyball
- Turn about an axis
- Revolve or spin
- Give a twist
Last Seen In
- New York Times - December 28, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - November 12, 2025
- LA Times - October 19, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - October 15, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 12, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 12, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - August 21, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - August 11, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - July 24, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - July 07, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - June 18, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 08, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - February 21, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - January 20, 2025
- Family Time - December 29, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 19, 2024
- Mirror Daily - November 06, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - October 19, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 18, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - October 15, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - September 19, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - August 15, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - August 06, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - August 06, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 09, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - July 05, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - June 27, 2024
- USA Today - June 11, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - June 11, 2024
- USA Today - June 02, 2024
- And in 228 more crossword puzzles...