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whisk

verb

1 the cable car will whisk you to the top of the mountain:

speed, hurry, rush, catapult;

sweep, hurtle, shoot.

2 she did not have the audacity to simply whisk the cloth away:

pull, snatch, pluck, tug, jerk, take;

remove;

informal whip, yank.

3 they just recognized him before he whisked out of sight:

dash, rush, tear, dart, hasten, hurry, scurry, scuttle, scamper, sprint, race, run, hare, bolt, bound, fly, gallop, career, charge, pound, shoot, hurtle, speed, streak, whizz, zoom, sweep, go like lightning, go hell for leather, go like the wind, flash, double;

informal pelt, scoot, hotfoot it, belt, zip, whip, go like a bat out of hell;

British, informal go like the clappers, bomb, bucket, leg it;

Scottish, informal wheech;

North American, informal boogie, hightail it, barrel, get the lead out;

informal , dated cut along;

archaic post, hie.

4 whisk the yolks with half the sugar:

whip, beat, stir/mix vigorously.

noun

1 the horse gave a whisk of its tail:

flick, twitch, wave, sweep, swipe.

2 combine the eggs and milk with a whisk:

beater, mixer, blender, swizzle stick.

whisk Oxford Dictionary of English