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swicken

swicken is the past participle of swike.

Meaning of swike

Verb

swike (third-person singular simple present swikes, present participle swiking, simple past swoke, past participle swicken)

  1. (dialectal, obsolete, transitive) To deceive, cheat; betray.
  2. (dialectal, obsolete, transitive) To stop, cease.

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Questions about swicken

What is swicken the past participle of?
Swicken is the past participle of swike.

Words near swicken in the dictionary

  1. swiciest
  2. swiciness
  3. Swick
  4. Swickard
  5. Swickards
  6. swicken
  7. swicy
  8. swidden
  9. swiddened
  10. swiddener
  11. swiddeners

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Adapted from Wiktionary: swicken (page history and authors); swike (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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