revolve vs gyrate

revolve and gyrate both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
revolve	No	No	Yes	No
gyrate	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, gyrate is a hyponym of revolve; that is, gyrate is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than revolve:

Other hyponyms of revolve include drive in, screw, screw, wheel, wheel around, reel, spin, spin around, whirl, swirl, twiddle, twirl, whirl.

revolve (verb)	gyrate (verb)
turn on or around an axis or a center	to wind or move in a spiral course
move in an orbit	revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis
cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis