switched

Verb

switch (third-person singular simple present switches, present participle switching, simple past and past participle switched)

1. (transitive) To exchange.
   • I want to switch this red dress for a green one.

   Synonyms:

   interchange

2. (transitive) To change (something) to the specified state using a switch.
   • Switch the light on.
3. (transitive) To whip or hit with a switch.
   • They were looking on the ground, absorbed in thought. The manager was switching his leg with a slender twig: his sagacious relative lifted his head.1899 March, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number MI, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part II
4. (intransitive) To change places, tasks, etc.
   • I want to switch to a different seat.
5. (intransitive, slang) To get angry suddenly; to quickly or unreasonably become enraged.
6. To swing or whisk.
   • to switch a cane

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