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Swinged vs Swinges - What's the difference?

swinged | swinges |

As a verb swinged

is (swinge).

As a noun swinges is

.

swinged

English

Verb

(head)
  • (swinge)
  • (nonstandard) (swing)

    • swinge

    English

    Verb

    (d)
  • (obsolete) To singe.
    • (Spenser)
  • (archaic) To move like a lash; to lash.
  • * Milton
    • Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail.
  • (archaic) To strike hard.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I had swinged him soundly.
  • * C. Dryden
    • And swinges his own vices in his son.
  • * Aphra Behn (1640-89) The Feigned Courtesans . This edition: (The plays of) Aphra Behn. Oxford University press 2000. p.233. ISBN 0192834517
    • Sir Feeble: Tis jelousy, the old worm that bites. [To Sir Cautious] Whom is it that you suspect.
    Sir Cautious: Alas I know not whom to suspect, I would I did; but if you discover him, I would swinge him.

    Related terms

    * swingeing

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A swinging blow.
  • (obsolete) Power; sway; influence.

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    swinges

    English

    Noun

    (head)

    • Anagrams

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