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aswing

/əˈswɪŋ/

aswing adverb: in a state of swinging.

Adverb

aswing (not comparable)

  1. In a state of swinging.
    • And sweeping trails of amaranthine blooms
      Crossing the lucent air, aswing or still,1838, Thomas Burbidge, “Armoria’s Garden”, in Poems, Longer and Shorter, London: William Pickering, page 177
    • […] over the western seas, where all the remembered years lie floating idly aswing with the ebb and flow,1906, Lord Dunsany, Time and the Gods, London: Heinemann, Part 2, Chapter 10, p. 170

Examples of aswing in a sentence

  • The procession of people came and went unceasingly, the glass doors always aswing.1921, Mary Grant Bruce, chapter 8, in Back to Billabong:
  • […] she sat on her bed and considered things for a long time, her hands tapping the coverlet and one foot aswing.1945, Maurice Walsh, chapter 12, in Nine Strings to Your Bow, Toronto: Smithers & Bonellie:
  • Undergraduates, their gowns aswing, were kicking a man into the mud.1994, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford, New York: Vintage, Part 1, p. 8:

Origin of aswing

From a- + swing.

Words that rhyme with aswing

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Questions about aswing

What does aswing mean?
Aswing means in a state of swinging.
How do you use aswing in a sentence?
The procession of people came and went unceasingly, the glass doors always aswing.
What part of speech is aswing?
Aswing is an adverb.
How do you pronounce aswing?
Aswing is pronounced /əˈswɪŋ/.

Words near aswing in the dictionary

  1. aswel
  2. aswell
  3. aswell as
  4. Aswells
  5. aswim
  6. aswing
  7. aswirl
  8. aswish
  9. aswoon
  10. ASX
  11. Asya

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