dar vueltas

Spanish

Verb

dar vueltas (first-person singular present doy vueltas, first-person singular preterite di vueltas, past participle dado vueltas)

  1. to spin, to rotate, to revolve
    Esa noticia hizo que mi cabeza diera vueltas.
    That news made my head spin.
  2. to go round in circles, to go around in circles
  3. to toss (to roll around as in restless sleep in bed)
  4. (idiomatic, transitive) to brood on, to chew on, to mull over, to go over
    Synonym: dar cien vueltas
    Ayer le di vueltas a la cuestión durante horas y no se me ocurre ninguna solución.
    I brooded on the problem for hours yesterday and I could not think of any solution.
    No paro de darle vueltas a lo que pasó ayer.
    I keep going over in my mind what happened yesterday.
    • 1994, José Ángel Mañas, chapter I, in Historias del Kronen, Barcelona: Ediciones Destino, →ISBN, page 13:
      —Bah. No le des más vueltas. Roberto es como es y punto. Además, calla, que aquí viene.
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