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swivelled

swivelled is the simple past and past participle of swivel.

Meaning of swivel

Verb

swivel (third-person singular simple present swivels, present participle (US) swiveling or (UK) swivelling, simple past and past participle (US) swiveled or (UK) swivelled)

  1. (intransitive) To swing or turn, as on a pin or pivot.
    • As expected, Swansea began the game with some patient passing and the first chance fell to striker Michu in the fourth minute when he controlled a cross by Jonjo Shelvey and swivelled in the penalty box, only to fire over the bar.2013 November 3, Delme Parfitt, “Cardiff City 1 - 0 Swansea City: Steven Caulker heads Bluebirds to South Wales derby win”, in Wales Online

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Forms of swivelled

alternative formswiveled

Questions about swivelled

What is swivelled the simple past and past participle of?
Swivelled is the simple past and past participle of swivel.

Words near swivelled in the dictionary

  1. swivelchair
  2. swivelchairs
  3. swiveled
  4. swiveling
  5. swivelings
  6. swivelled
  7. swivelling
  8. swivellings
  9. swivelly
  10. swivels
  11. swives

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Adapted from Wiktionary: swivelled (page history and authors); swivel (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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