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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
swinge .
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Examples
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I was a little scared when the boat swinged side to side.
I'm too hot for Auckland Jerine 2008
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I was a little scared when the boat swinged side to side.
Archive 2008-12-01 Jerine 2008
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He has swinged back and forth to fool you, yet you still fall for it.
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“There has been something of a fight, my lord,” answered our acquaintance the smith, “between the townsmen and the Southland loons who ride with the Douglas; and we have swinged them as far as the abbey gate.”
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True, sir; I was in love with my bed: I thank you, you swinged me for my love, which makes me the bolder to chide you for yours.
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Now will he be swinged for reading my letter; an unmannerly slave, that will thrust himself into secrets!
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Walpole, late Secretary at War, is to be swinged for bribery, and the Queen is to communicate something of great importance to the two Houses, at least they say so.
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Enig and Evig, on whose account formerly the Landgrave of Hesse was swinged off with a vengeance.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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To others again he unjointed the spondyles or knuckles of the neck, disfigured their chaps, gashed their faces, made their cheeks hang flapping on their chin, and so swinged and balammed them that they fell down before him like hay before a mower.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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To others again he unjointed the spondyles or knuckles of the neck, disfigured their chaps, gashed their faces, made their cheeks hang flapping on their chin, and so swinged and balammed them that they fell down before him like hay before a mower.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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