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Swashing
- verb - act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner
- dash a liquid upon or against; "The mother splashed the baby's face with water"
- make violent, noisy movements
- show off
Swathing
- verb - cloth coverings wrapped around something (as a wound or a baby)
- wrap in swaddling clothes; "swaddled the infant"
Swatting
- verb - hit swiftly with a violent blow; "Swat flies"
Swearing
- verb - a commitment to tell the truth (especially in a court of law); to lie under oath is to become subject to prosecution for perjury
- 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
- profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger; "expletives were deleted"
- 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"
Sweating
- verb - excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin; "Exercise makes one sweat"
- the process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a salty fluid; "perspiration is a homeostatic process"
Sweeping
- verb - 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"
- ignoring distinctions; "sweeping generalizations"; "wholesale destruction"
- 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"
- 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"
- taking in or moving over (or as if over) a wide area; often used in combination; "a sweeping glance"; "a wide-sweeping view of the river"
- the act of cleaning with a broom
- to cover or extend over an area or time period; "Rive
Sweetens
- verb - make sweeter in taste
- make sweeter, more pleasant, or more agreeable; "sweeten a deal"
Swelling
- verb - an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement
- become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger; "The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son"
- cause to become swollen; "The water swells the wood"
- come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things); "Strong emotions welled up"; "Smoke swelled from it"
- come up, as of a liquid; "Tears well in her eyes"; "the currents well up"
- expand abnormally; "The bellies of the starving children are swelling"
- increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity; "The music swelled to a crescendo"
- something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings; "the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the rocky prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well developed"; "the bony excrescence between its horns"
- the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often acco
Swerving
- verb - the act of turning aside suddenly
- turn sharply; change direction abruptly; "The car cut to the left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the right"