Illustration: At a neighborhood summer gathering, a child grips the crank of a hand-operated shaved-ice machine and pushes it around its axle. The child's other hand steadies the machine while an adult holds a bowl beneath the blade.

JLPT N3verbLevel estimated by Bebop

回まわす

mawasu

to turn, to rotate

Example sentences

いや、それじゃだめだ。逆ぎゃくになるようにまわしてごらん。
No, that’s not the right way. You have to turn it the other way round.
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ジムは鍵かぎを回まわした。
Jim turned the key in the lock.
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鍵かぎを右みぎに回まわしなさい。
Turn the key to the right.
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Kanji in 回

回-times; roundOnカイ・エKunまわる・まわす・まわし-

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