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swab down

swab down verb: to clean (something, especially the deck of a ship) with a sponge or similarly absorbent material.

Verb

swab down (third-person singular simple present swabs down, present participle swabbing down, simple past and past participle swabbed down)

  1. (transitive) To clean (something, especially the deck of a ship) with a sponge or similarly absorbent material.

Forms of swab down

third-person singular presentswabs down
present participleswabbing down
past participleswabbed down
pastswabbed down

Questions about swab down

What does swab down mean?
Swab down means to clean (something, especially the deck of a ship) with a sponge or similarly absorbent material.
What part of speech is swab down?
Swab down is a verb.
What is the past tense of swab down?
The past tense of swab down is swabbed down.

Words near swab down in the dictionary

  1. SW6er
  2. SWA
  3. swaa
  4. swaaa
  5. swab
  6. swab down
  7. swab hitch
  8. swab hitches
  9. swab jockey
  10. swab jockeys
  11. swabbed

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