Diccionario ingles.comDiccionario ingles.com
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Swinge   Listen
noun
Swinge  n.  
1.
The sweep of anything in motion; a swinging blow; a swing. (Obs.)
2.
Power; sway; influence. (Obs.)





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Swinge" Quotes from Famous Books



... Street rogues, that write the Flying Post and Medley in one paper, will not be quiet. They are always mauling Lord Treasurer, Lord Bolingbroke, and me. We have the dog under prosecution, but Bolingbroke is not active enough; but I hope to swinge him. He is a Scotch rogue, one Ridpath. They get out upon bail, and write on. We take them again, and get fresh bail; so it goes ...
— Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges • William Makepeace Thackeray
... honest man, he had then gone out of Mr. Badmans road. He did it therefore of a dishonest mind, and to a wicked end; to wit, that he might have wherewithall, howsoever unlawfully gotten, to follow his Cups and Queans, and to live in the full swinge of his lusts, even as ...
— The Life and Death of Mr. Badman • John Bunyan


Words linked to "Swinge" :   scorch, char, sear, singe


Copyright © 2025 Diccionario ingles.com