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Swales
- noun - a low area (especially a marshy area between ridges)
Swamps
- noun - a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables; "he was trapped in a medical swamp"
- drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged; "The tsunami swamped every boat in the harbor"
- fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind"
- low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog
Swanks
- noun - display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously; "he showed off his new sports car"
- elegance by virtue of being fashionable
Swards
- noun - surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots
Swarms
- noun - a group of many things in the air or on the ground; "a swarm of insects obscured the light"; "clouds of blossoms"; "it discharged a cloud of spores"
- a moving crowd
- A series of earthquakes which may preceed a volcanic eruption.
- be teeming, be abuzz; "The garden was swarming with bees"; "The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen"; "her mind pullulated with worries"
- move in large numbers; "people were pouring out of the theater"; "beggars pullulated in the plaza"
Swaths
- noun - a path or strip (as cut by one course of mowing)
- the space created by the swing of a scythe or the cut of a mowing machine
Swears
- verb - have confidence or faith in; "We can trust in God"; "Rely on your friends"; "bank on your good education"; "I swear by my grandmother's recipes"
- make a deposition; declare under oath
- promise solemnly; take an oath
- to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true; "Before God I swear I am innocent"
- utter obscenities or profanities; "The drunken men were cursing loudly in the street"
Sweats
- noun - agitation resulting from active worry; "don't get in a stew"; "he's in a sweat about exams"
- condensation of moisture on a cold surface; "the cold glasses were streaked with sweat"
- excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin; "Exercise makes one sweat"
- garment consisting of sweat pants and a sweatshirt
- salty fluid secreted by sweat glands; "sweat poured off his brow"
- to perspire
- use of physical or mental energy; hard work; "he got an A for effort"; "they managed only with great exertion"
Swedes
- noun - a cruciferous plant with a thick bulbous edible yellow root
- a native or inhabitant of Sweden
- the large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food
Sweeps
- noun - (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running around the end of the line
- a long oar used in an open boat
- a movement in an arc; "a sweep of his arm"
- a wide scope; "the sweep of the plains"
- clean by sweeping; "Please sweep the floor"
- cover the entire range of
- force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action; "They were swept up by the events"; "don't drag me into this business"
- make a big sweeping gesture or movement
- move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions; "The diva swept into the room"; "Shreds of paper sailed through the air"; "The searchlights swept across the sky"
- someone who cleans soot from chimneys
- sweep across or over; "Her long skirt brushed the floor"; "A gasp swept cross the audience"
- sweep with a broom or as if with a broom; "Sweep the crumbs off the table"; "Sweep under the bed"
- to cover or extend over an area or ti