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swatswat /swɒt $ swɑːt/ verb (past tense and past participle swatted, present participle swatting) [transitive] swatOrigin: 1600-1700 squat in its original meaning ‘to crush’ (13-19 centuries) VERB TABLEswat |
Present | I, you, we, they | swat | | he, she, it | swats | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | swatted | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have swatted | | he, she, it | has swatted | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had swatted | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will swat | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have swatted |
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Present | I | am swatting | | he, she, it | is swatting | | you, we, they | are swatting | Past | I, he, she, it | was swatting | | you, we, they | were swatting | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been swatting | | he, she, it | has been swatting | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been swatting | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be swatting | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been swatting |
- Be careful when she swats at a fly or a spider, she may swat you by mistake.
- But just as the buzzer sounds, an impossibly tall defender leaps and swats aside your shot.
- Doleman wrapped him up with his left hand and swatted the ball loose with his right hand.
- I wait until it fills itself and then I swat it, the blood splashing over my hand.
- It was a pleasant place, with high ceilings where fans swatted the air.
- Then he swatted himself across the nose with the 400, and walked out jauntily.
- Then my father would light a candle and we would all swat, stamp and squash as many as we could.
- They come along with something sharp and heavy and they swat you with it.
ADVERB► away· He had dismissed her from his mind as he would swat away a troublesome fly. to hit an insect in order to kill it: He calmly swatted a couple of flies.—swat noun [countable] |