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Swayed vs Swaled - What's the difference?

swayed | swaled |

As verbs the difference between swayed and swaled

is that swayed is past tense of sway while swaled is past tense of swale.

As an adjective swayed

is bent backwards, as in swayback.

swayed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (sway)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Bent backwards, as in swayback

    • swaled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (swale)

    • swale

    English

    Etymology 1

    , from (etyl), "shade", perhaps of Scandinavian origin; akin to (etyl) svalr

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A low tract of moist or marshy land.
  • A long narrow and shallow trough between ridges on a beach, running parallel to the coastline.
  • A shallow troughlike depression that's created to carry water during rainstorms or snow melts; a drainage ditch.
  • A shallow, usually grassy depression sloping downward from a plains upland meadow or level vegetated ridgetop.
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    • Jane climbed a few more paces behind him and then peeped over the ridge. Just beyond began a shallow swale that deepened and widened into a valley, and then swung to the left.
  • A shallow trough dug into the land on contour (horizontally with no slope). Its purpose being to allow water time to percolate into the soil.

    • Etymology 2

    See sweal.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, dialect) A gutter in a candle.

    • Verb

    (swal)
  • (melt and waste away, or singe)

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