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swingeing

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˈswɪnd͡ʒɪŋ/Part of speech adjectiveSorted eggiinnswStarts with SEnds with G0 clues
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Definitions

  1. severe; punishingly bad

Word origin

From swinge + -ing. Swinge is derived from Middle English swengen (“to strike”), from Old English swengan (“to dash, strike; to cause to swing”).

Used in a sentence

  • And when Occaſion did require, / In midſt of Houſe a mighty Fire, / Of black dry'd Earth and ſwingeing Blocks / Was made, enough to roaſt an Ox; […]
  • "Let him pursue his own course," said Diggs, taking up a pen, and making some hasty memoranda on a sheet of paper. "We shall have swingeing damages—swingeing damages."
  • God! what a mile he led them! From the slope they sought to scale, Sullen and hot, the swingeing shot was hurling its awful hail:

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