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Verb swing has 13 senses
- swing - move in a curve or arc, usually with the intent of hitting; "He swung his left fist"; "swing a bat"
--1 is one way to move, displace
Sample sentence:
The girls swing the wooden sticks
- swing, sway - move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner; "He swung back"
--2 is one way to move back and forth
Sample sentence:
The wooden sticks swing
- swing - change direction with a swinging motion; turn; "swing back"; "swing forward"
--3 is one way to travel, go, move, locomote
Sample sentences:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
- swing, swing over - influence decisively; "This action swung many votes over to his side"
--4 is one way to influence, act upon, work
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- swing, sweep, swing out - make a big sweeping gesture or movement
--5 is one way to wield, handle
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
- dangle, swing, drop - hang freely; "the ornaments dangled from the tree"; "The light dropped from the ceiling"
--6 is one way to hang
Sample sentence:
The lights swing from the ceiling
- swing - hit or aim at with a sweeping arm movement; "The soccer player began to swing at the referee"
--7 is one way to aim, take, train, take aim, direct
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s PP
- swing - alternate dramatically between high and low values; "his mood swings"; "the market is swinging up and down"
--8 is one way to change
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
- swing - live in a lively, modern, and relaxed style; "The Woodstock generation attempted to swing freely"
--9 is one way to live
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
- swing - have a certain musical rhythm; "The music has to swing"
--10 is one way to be
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
- swing, get around - be a social swinger; socialize a lot
--11 is one way to socialize, socialise
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
- swing - play with a subtle and intuitively felt sense of rhythm
--12 is one way to play
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
- swing - engage freely in promiscuous sex, often with the husband or wife of one's friends; "There were many swinging couples in the 1960's"
--13 is one way to fornicate
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
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