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swapping over

swapping over is the present participle and gerund of swap over.

Meaning of swap over

Verb

swap over (third-person singular simple present swaps over, present participle swapping over, simple past and past participle swapped over)

  1. To exchange, change over (positions etc.)
    • There's a change of driver halfway at Crianlarich. Glasgow crews bring the 35-year-old Class 156 north, then wait to take over the next train back south. Crews from Mallaig, Oban and Fort William take their trains from the coast to Crianlarich and swap over. There's a tiny rest room on the...2023 November 29, Paul Clifton, “West is best in the Highlands”, in RAIL, number 997, pages 37-38

Questions about swapping over

What is swapping over the present participle and gerund of?
Swapping over is the present participle and gerund of swap over.

Words near swapping over in the dictionary

  1. swappiness
  2. swapping
  3. swapping horses in midstream
  4. swapping in
  5. swapping out
  6. swapping over
  7. swapping places
  8. swapping spit
  9. swappings
  10. swapportunities
  11. swapportunity

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Adapted from Wiktionary: swapping over (page history and authors); swap over (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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