| 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 |