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swoke

swoke is the simple past 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.

See all 6 meanings of swike

Questions about swoke

What is swoke the simple past of?
Swoke is the simple past of swike.

Words near swoke in the dictionary

  1. Swofford
  2. Swoffords
  3. Swogger
  4. Swoggers
  5. SWOH
  6. swoke
  7. swole
  8. swolemate
  9. swolemates
  10. swoleness
  11. swoler

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: swoke (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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