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Definition of revolotear in Spanish:
revolotear
intransitive verb
- 1
Volar dando vueltas y giros en un espacio reducido.
unos loros chillones revolotean por encima de las terrazas de los edificios; nubes de moscas revolotean y se posan en las melifluas montañas de pasteles; tres o cuatro abejas que revolotean en la ventana de su baño; figurative mamá revoloteaba a nuestro alrededor poniendo y quitando de la mesa fuentes y platos; figurative la gente revoloteaba en torno al puesto de tabaco
- 2
Moverse [una cosa ligera] por el aire dando vueltas y giros.
por la ventana abierta se veía un erial donde revoloteaba un manojo de papeles agujereados
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