aswing

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/əˈswɪŋ/

adverb

In a state of swinging.

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Meanings

adverbaswing (not comparable)
  1. not comparableIn a state of swinging.

    Undergraduates, their gowns aswing, were kicking a man into the mud.

    1994, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford, New York: Vintage, Part 1, p. 8
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    And sweeping trails of amaranthine blooms Crossing the lucent air, aswing or still,

    1838, Thomas Burbidge, “Armoria’s Garden”, in Poems, Longer and Shorter, London: William Pickering, page 177

    […] over the western seas, where all the remembered years lie floating idly aswing with the ebb and flow,

    1906, Lord Dunsany, Time and the Gods, London: Heinemann, Part 2, Chapter 10, p. 170

    The procession of people came and went unceasingly, the glass doors always aswing.

    1921, Mary Grant Bruce, chapter 8, in Back to Billabong

    […] she sat on her bed and considered things for a long time, her hands tapping the coverlet and one foot aswing.

    1945, Maurice Walsh, chapter 12, in Nine Strings to Your Bow, Toronto: Smithers & Bonellie

Origin

From a- + swing.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with aswing

beingsomethingthingkingspringbringstringthinkingingwingswingngsingbearingBeijingsubmittingpingSinghpngstingminglingslingbling
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Anagrams

sawing
Cite this entry
APA

aswing. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/aswing

MLA

“aswing.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/aswing. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “aswing,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/aswing.

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