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5 letter words starting with sw

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  • SWABS
  • SWACK
  • SWADS
  • SWAGE
  • SWAGS
  • SWAIL
  • SWAIN
  • SWALE
  • SWALY
  • SWAMI
  • SWAMP
  • SWAMY
  • SWANG
  • SWANK
  • SWANS
  • SWAPS
  • SWAPT
  • SWARD
  • SWARE
  • SWARF
  • SWARM
  • SWART
  • SWASH
  • SWATH
  • SWATS
  • SWAYL
  • SWAYS
  • SWEAL
  • SWEAR
  • SWEAT
  • SWEDE
  • SWEED
  • SWEEL
  • SWEEP
  • SWEER
  • SWEES
  • SWEET
  • SWEIR
  • SWELL
  • SWELT
  • SWEPT
  • SWERF
  • SWEYS
  • SWIES
  • SWIFT
  • SWIGS
  • SWILE
  • SWILL
  • SWIMS
  • SWINE
  • SWING
  • SWINK
  • SWIPE
  • SWIRE
  • SWIRL
  • SWISH
  • SWISS
  • SWITH
  • SWITS
  • SWIVE
  • SWIZZ
  • SWOBS
  • SWOLE
  • SWOLL
  • SWOLN
  • SWOON
  • SWOOP
  • SWOPS
  • SWOPT
  • SWORD
  • SWORE
  • SWORN
  • SWOTS
  • SWOUN
  • SWUNG

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Definition of swale

swale (noun)

  1. A low tract of moist or marshy land.
  2. A long narrow and shallow trough between ridges on a beach, running parallel to the coastline.
  3. A shallow troughlike depression that's created to carry water during rainstorms or snow melts; a drainage ditch.
  4. A shallow, usually grassy depression sloping downward from a plains upland meadow or level vegetated ridgetop.
  5. A shallow trough dug into the land on contour (horizontally with no slope), whose purpose is to allow water time to percolate into the soil.

swale (noun)

  1. A gutter in a candle.

swale (verb)

  1. To burn slowly.
  2. To melt and run down, as the tallow of a candle; waste away without feeding the flame.
  3. To singe; scorch; dress (as a hog) with burning or singeing.
  4. To consume with fire; burn.
  5. To make disappear; cause to waste away; diminish; reduce.

Definition of sweep

sweep (noun)

  1. A single action of sweeping.
  2. The person who steers a dragon boat.
  3. A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew.
  4. A chimney sweep.
  5. A methodical search, typically for bugs (electronic listening devices).
  6. A batsman's shot, played from a kneeling position with a swinging horizontal bat.
  7. A lottery, usually on the results of a sporting event, where players win if their randomly chosen team wins.
  8. A flow of water parallel to shore caused by wave action at an ocean beach or at a point or headland.
  9. A throw or takedown that primarily uses the legs to attack an opponent's legs.
  10. Violent and general destruction.
  11. A movable templet for making moulds, in loam moulding.
  12. In the game casino, the act of capturing all face-up cards from the table.
  13. The compass of any turning body or of any motion.
  14. Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, etc. away from a rectilinear line.
  15. A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.
  16. A rowing style in which each rower rows with oar on either the port or starboard side.
  17. (refining) The almond furnace.
  18. A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower a bucket in a well for drawing water.
  19. Any of the blades of a windmill.
  20. (in the plural) The sweepings of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc.
  21. Any of several sea chub in the kyphosid subfamily Scorpidinae.
  22. An expanse or a swath, a strip of land.

sweep (verb)

  1. To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush.
  2. To move through a (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke.
  3. To search (a place) methodically.
  4. To travel quickly.
  5. To play a sweep shot.
  6. To brush the ice in front of a moving stone, causing it to travel farther and to curl less.
  7. To move something in a long sweeping motion, as a broom.
  8. To win (a series) without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
  9. To defeat (a team) in a series without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
  10. To remove something abruptly and thoroughly.
  11. To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.
  12. To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.
  13. To strike with a long stroke.
  14. To row with one oar to either the port or starboard side.
  15. To draw or drag something over.
  16. To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation.
  17. (including) to vacuum a carpet or rug

Definition of swing

swing (noun)

  1. The manner in which something is swung.
  2. The sweep or compass of a swinging body.
  3. A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing.
  4. A hanging seat in a children's playground, for acrobats in a circus, or on a porch for relaxing.
  5. A dance style.
  6. The genre of music associated with this dance style.
  7. The amount of change towards or away from something.
  8. Sideways movement of the ball as it flies through the air.
  9. Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it.
  10. In a musical theater production, a performer who understudies several roles.
  11. A basic dance step in which a pair link hands and turn round together in a circle.
  12. Free course; unrestrained liberty.
  13. Influence or power of anything put in motion.
  14. A type of hook with the arm more extended.

swing (verb)

  1. To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.
  2. To dance.
  3. To ride on a swing.
  4. To participate in the swinging lifestyle; to participate in wife-swapping.
  5. To hang from the gallows.
  6. (of a ball) to move sideways in its trajectory.
  7. To fluctuate or change.
  8. To move (an object) backward and forward; to wave.
  9. To change (a numerical result); especially to change the outcome of an election.
  10. To make (something) work; especially to afford (something) financially.
  11. To play notes that are in pairs by making the first of the pair slightly longer than written (augmentation) and the second shorter, resulting in a bouncy, uneven rhythm.
  12. (of a bowler) to make the ball move sideways in its trajectory.
  13. To move one's arm in a punching motion.
  14. In dancing, to turn around in a small circle with one's partner, holding hands or arms.
  15. To admit or turn something for the purpose of shaping it; said of a lathe.
  16. To put (a door, gate, etc.) on hinges so that it can swing or turn.
  17. To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor.


Definition of swive

swive (verb)

  1. To copulate with (a woman).
  2. To cut a crop in a sweeping or rambling manner, hence to reap; cut for harvest.