| swab | (verb) wash with a swab or a mop | Synonyms: swob |
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| (verb) apply (usually a liquid) to a surface | Synonyms: dab, swob |
| swaddle | (verb) wrap in swaddling clothes | Synonyms: swathe |
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| swag | (verb) sway heavily or unsteadily | - |
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| (verb) walk as if unable to control one's movements | Synonyms: careen, keel, lurch, reel, stagger |
| (verb) droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness | Synonyms: droop, flag, sag |
| swage | (verb) form metals with a swage | Synonyms: upset |
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| swagger | (verb) act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner | Synonyms: bluster, swash |
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| (verb) discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate | Synonyms: browbeat, bully |
| (verb) to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others | Synonyms: cock, prance, ruffle, sashay, strut, tittup |
| swallow | (verb) believe or accept without questioning or challenge | - |
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| (verb) keep from expressing | - |
| (verb) tolerate or accommodate oneself to | Synonyms: accept, live with |
| (verb) take back what one has said | Synonyms: take back, unsay, withdraw |
| (verb) utter unclearly | - |
| (verb) engulf and destroy | - |
| (verb) pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking | Synonyms: get down |
| (verb) enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing | Synonyms: bury, eat up, immerse, swallow up |
| swamp | (verb) fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid | Synonyms: deluge, flood, inundate |
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| (verb) drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged | Synonyms: drench |
| swan | (verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true | Synonyms: affirm, assert, aver, avow, swear, verify |
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| (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, tramp, vagabond, wander |
| (verb) sweep majestically | - |
| swank | (verb) display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously | Synonyms: flash, flaunt, ostentate, show off |
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| swap | (verb) move (a piece of a program) into memory, in computer science | - |
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| (verb) exchange or give (something) in exchange for | Synonyms: switch, swop, trade |
| swarm | (verb) move in large numbers | Synonyms: pour, pullulate, stream, teem |
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| (verb) be teeming, be abuzz | Synonyms: pullulate, teem |
| swash | (verb) act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner | Synonyms: bluster, swagger |
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| (verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, bluster, boast, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, tout, vaunt |
| (verb) dash a liquid upon or against | Synonyms: plash, spatter, splash, splatter, splosh |
| (verb) make violent, noisy movements | - |
| swat | (verb) to make an illegitimate call to the police so as to have a SWAT team dispatched to a location | - |
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| (verb) hit swiftly with a violent blow | - |
| swathe | (verb) wrap in swaddling clothes | Synonyms: swaddle |
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| swatter | (verb) splash and flutter about in or as if in water | - |
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| sway | (verb) move back and forth or sideways | Synonyms: rock, shake |
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| (verb) move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner | Synonyms: swing |
| (verb) cause to move back and forth | Synonyms: rock |
| (verb) win approval or support for | Synonyms: carry, persuade |
| swear | (verb) have faith or confidence in | Synonyms: bank, bet, calculate, count, depend, look, reckon, rely |
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| (verb) make a deposition; declare under oath | Synonyms: depone, depose |
| (verb) utter obscenities or profanities | Synonyms: blaspheme, curse, cuss, imprecate |
| (verb) promise solemnly; take an oath | - |
| (verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true | Synonyms: affirm, assert, aver, avow, swan, verify |
| sweat | (verb) excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin | Synonyms: perspire, sudate |
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| sweep | (verb) win an overwhelming victory in or on | - |
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| (verb) sweep with a broom or as if with a broom | Synonyms: broom |
| (verb) clean by sweeping | - |
| (verb) make a big sweeping gesture or movement | Synonyms: swing, swing out |
| (verb) move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions | Synonyms: sail |
| (verb) sweep across or over | Synonyms: brush |
| (verb) force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action | Synonyms: drag, drag in, embroil, sweep up, tangle |
| (verb) to cover or extend over an area or time period | Synonyms: cross, span, traverse |
| (verb) cover the entire range of | - |
| sweeten | (verb) make sweeter, more pleasant, or more agreeable | - |
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| (verb) make sweeter in taste | Synonyms: dulcify, dulcorate, edulcorate |
| swell | (verb) expand abnormally | Synonyms: intumesce, swell up, tumefy, tumesce |
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| (verb) cause to become swollen | - |
| (verb) increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity | - |
| (verb) come up, as of a liquid | Synonyms: well |
| (verb) become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger | Synonyms: puff up |
| (verb) come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things) | Synonyms: well up |
| swelter | (verb) suffer from intense heat | - |
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| (verb) be uncomfortably hot | - |
| swerve | (verb) turn sharply; change direction abruptly | Synonyms: curve, cut, sheer, slew, slue, trend, veer |
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| swig | (verb) to swallow hurriedly or greedily or in one draught | Synonyms: gulp, quaff |
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| (verb) strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat | Synonyms: slog, slug |
| swill | (verb) drink large quantities of (liquid, especially alcoholic drink) | Synonyms: swill down |
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| (verb) feed pigs | Synonyms: slop |
| swim | (verb) travel through water | - |
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| (verb) be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom | Synonyms: float |
| (verb) move as if gliding through water | - |
| (verb) be covered with or submerged in a liquid | Synonyms: drown |
| (verb) be dizzy or giddy | - |
| swindle | (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, victimize |
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| swing | (verb) alternate dramatically between high and low values | - |
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| (verb) hit or aim at with a sweeping arm movement | - |
| (verb) make a big sweeping gesture or movement | Synonyms: sweep, swing out |
| (verb) engage freely in promiscuous sex, often with the husband or wife of one's friends | - |
| (verb) play with a subtle and intuitively felt sense of rhythm | - |
| (verb) move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner | Synonyms: sway |
| (verb) move in a curve or arc, usually with the intent of hitting | - |
| (verb) change direction with a swinging motion; turn | - |
| (verb) be a social swinger; socialize a lot | Synonyms: get around |
| (verb) influence decisively | Synonyms: swing over |
| (verb) hang loosely | Synonyms: dangle, drop |
| (verb) live in a lively, modern, and relaxed style | - |
| (verb) have a certain musical rhythm | - |
| swinge | (verb) burn superficially or lightly | Synonyms: singe |
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| swipe | (verb) strike with a swiping motion | - |
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| (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak |
| swirl | (verb) flow in a circular current, of liquids | Synonyms: eddy, purl, whirl, whirlpool |
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| (verb) turn in a twisting or spinning motion | Synonyms: twiddle, twirl, whirl |
| swish | (verb) move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound | Synonyms: lap, swoosh, swosh |
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| switch | (verb) reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) | Synonyms: alternate, flip-flop, flip, interchange, tack |
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| (verb) make a shift in or exchange of | Synonyms: change over, shift |
| (verb) lay aside, abandon, or leave for another | Synonyms: change, shift |
| (verb) change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence | Synonyms: exchange, switch over |
| (verb) cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation | Synonyms: flip, throw |
| (verb) flog with or as if with a flexible rod | - |
| (verb) exchange or give (something) in exchange for | Synonyms: swap, swop, trade |
| swivel | (verb) turn on a pivot | Synonyms: pivot |
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| swob | (verb) wash with a swab or a mop | Synonyms: swab |
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| (verb) apply (usually a liquid) to a surface | Synonyms: dab, swab |
| swoon | (verb) pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain | Synonyms: conk, faint, pass out |
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| swoop | (verb) seize or catch with a swooping motion | Synonyms: swoop up |
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| (verb) move down on as if in an attack | Synonyms: pounce |
| (verb) move with a sweep, or in a swooping arc | - |
| swoosh | (verb) move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound | Synonyms: lap, swish, swosh |
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| swop | (verb) exchange or give (something) in exchange for | Synonyms: swap, switch, trade |
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| swosh | (verb) move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound | Synonyms: lap, swish, swoosh |
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| swot | (verb) study intensively, as before an exam | Synonyms: bone, bone up, cram, drum, get up, grind away, mug up, swot up |
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