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swinged

swinged is the simple past and past participle of swinge.

swinged is the simple past and past participle of swing.

Meaning of swinge

Verb

swinge (third-person singular simple present swinges, present participle swinging or swingeing, simple past and past participle swinged)

  1. (obsolete) To singe.
    • The scorching flame fore swinged all his face1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. (archaic) To move like a lash; to lash.
    • Th' old Dragon underground / In ſtraiter limits bound, / Not half ſo far caſts his uſurped ſvvay, / And vvrath to ſee his Kingdom fail, / Svvindges the ſcaly Horrour of his foulded tail.1629, John Milton, “On the Morning of Christs Nativity”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC, page 9
  3. (archaic) To strike hard.
    • For certaine words he ſpake againſt your Grace / In your retirment, I had ſwing'd him ſoundly.c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
  4. (obsolete) To chastise; to beat.
    • O, the passion of God, so I shall be swinged. / So, my bones shall be bangedǃ / The porridge pot is stolenː what, Lob, say, / Come away, and be hangedǃa. 1575, unknown author, The Marriage of Wit and Wisdom

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Meaning of swing

Verb

swing (third-person singular simple present swings, present participle swinging, simple past swung or (archaic or dialectal) swang, past participle swung or (archaic or dialectal) swang or (archaic) swungen)

  1. (intransitive) To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.
    • The plant swung in the breeze.
  2. (intransitive) To dance.
  3. (intransitive) To ride on a swing.
    • The children laughed as they swung.
  4. (intransitive) To participate in the swinging lifestyle; to participate in wifeswapping.
    • We find it difficult to meet couples our age, and often swing with single, straight men. We have rules: no married guys cheating on their wives, no one too young or too old, and no one who supports Trump.2017 October 13, anonymous author, “My life in sex: ‘We have rules for swinging: no one cheating on their wives, no one who supports Trump’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 17...
  5. (intransitive) To hang from the gallows; to be punished by hanging, swing for something or someone; (often hyperbolic) to be severely punished.
    • “It's all clear,” he whispered. “Have you the chisel and the bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!”
      Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts.1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Red-Headed League
  6. (transitive) (of a bowler) To make the ball move sideways in its trajectory.

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Questions about swinged

What is swinged the simple past and past participle of?
Swinged is the simple past and past participle of swinge.

Words near swinged in the dictionary

  1. swingby
  2. swingbys
  3. swinge
  4. swingebuckler
  5. swingebucklers
  6. swinged
  7. swingeing
  8. swingeingly
  9. swingel
  10. swingels
  11. swinger

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Adapted from Wiktionary: swinged (page history and authors); swinge (page history and authors); swing (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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