rotate vs gyrate

rotate and gyrate both are verbs.

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

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

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

rotate (verb)	gyrate (verb)
plant or grow in a fixed cyclic order of succession	to wind or move in a spiral course
perform a job or duty on a rotating basis	revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis
cause to turn on an axis or center
turn on or around an axis or a center
turn outward
exchange on a regular basis