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swingingverbpresent participle of swing to change one's course or directionthinking that we were being followed, we abruptly swung to the left at the next intersection swing right at James St. detouring, deviating, diverging, sheering, swerving, turning, turning off, veering, wheeling tacking, zigzaggingdoubling (back), turning back to change the course or direction of (something)at the sound of gunfire, the cavalry officer swung his horse around and galloped rapidly back to the fort deflecting, diverting, redirecting, turning, veering, wheeling, whipping averting, deviating, moving, rechanneling, shifting, shunting, sidetracking, swerving, switching, transferringswiveling(or swivelling), twisting, whirling, zigzaggingbending, curving, swayingreversing, turning back to deal with (something) usually skillfully or efficientlya man who's able to swing two full-time jobs addressing, contending (with), coping (with), fielding, grappling (with), hacking, handling, managing, maneuvering, manipulating, negotiating, playing, taking, treating engineering, finessing, jockeyingbringing off, carrying off, carrying out, getting off, pullingcommanding, directing, guiding, steeringcontrolling, micromanaging, regulating, runningreacting (to), responding (to) coming to grips with, having a grip on botching, bungling, foozling, fumbling, goofing (up), lousing up, messing (up), mishandling, muffing, scamping to move (something) in a curved or circular path on or as if on an axishe swung the bat as hard as he could but he missed the ball don't let the wind swing that gate shut pivoting, revolving, rolling, rotating, spinning, swirling, swiveling(or swivelling), turning, twirling, twisting, wheeling, whirling screwing, unscrewingtwiddlingcoiling, cranking, reeling, windingcirculating to place on an elevated point without support from belowbeach towels swung up to dry on the lifeguard's high chair dangling, hanging, slinging, suspending hooking, mounting, pinning, tackingdraping, festooning, garlanding, stringingextending (out), jutting, projecting, sticking outoverhanging, protrudingcascading, depending, fallingbalancing, poising to have enough money forI don't think that we can swing that hefty a mortgage affording, going coveringexpending, financing, outlaying, paying (for), ponying up, springing (for)picking up, purchasing, takingacquiring, getting, obtaining, procuring, securingbidding, offeringbankrolling, endowing, subsidizing, underwriting in 1956 |