📖 S — The English dictionary · page 123

swat — Everyday, meaning 1: To swat means to hit something, usually an insect, with a quick hard slap using your hand or a flat object.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A swat is a quick hit like that.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: SWAT (in capitals) is a special police team in the USA.↗ Example: Dad swatted the fly with a rolled-up newspaper.↗ · Don't swat at the wasp; just walk away slowly.↗ · The cat swatted the string with its paw.↗ · Grandma keeps a fly swatter in the kitchen.↗ · The giant swatted the knights away like flies.↗ · She swatted a mosquito on her arm.↗

swathe — Everyday, meaning 1: A swathe is a long, wide strip or area of land, crops or something else.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To swathe something is to wrap it up in cloth or bandages.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A swathe can be a large part of a group: «a swathe of the country».↗ Example: The fire burned a wide swathe of forest.↗ · The baby was swathed in a warm blanket.↗ · His arm was swathed in bandages.↗ · The farmer cut the hay in long swathes.↗ · A swathe of bluebells covered the wood.↗ · Snow fell across a huge swathe of Canada.↗

sway — Everyday, meaning 1: To sway is to move slowly from side to side, like trees in the wind or a person dancing.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To sway someone is to change their opinion or make them decide something.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Sway (noun) is power or influence over people: «hold sway».↗ Example: The trees swayed in the wind.↗ · We swayed to the music.↗ · The boat swayed from side to side.↗ · Tall towers sway slightly in strong winds.↗ · Don't be swayed by adverts.↗ · His speech swayed the class to vote for him.↗ · The rope bridge swayed as we crossed.↗ · The nest swayed to and fro, as they sat on the rim and cried.↗ · But the fig-tree said unto them: Should I leave my sweetness, and my good fruitage, and go to hold sway over the trees?↗ (Prophets JDG.9.11, JPS 1917)↗ · And the vine said unto them: Should I leave my wine, which cheereth God and man, and go to hold sway over the trees?↗ (Prophets JDG.9.13, JPS 1917)↗ · But the olive-tree said unto them: Should I leave my fatness, seeing that by me they honour God and man, and go to hold sway over the trees?↗ (Prophets JDG.9.9, JPS 1917)↗

swear — Everyday, meaning 1: To swear is to use rude or bad words.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To swear is also to make a serious promise or say something is really true.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To swear someone in is to make them promise to do a job honestly, like a judge or president.↗ Example: Please don't swear in class.↗ · He swore he had not eaten the last biscuit.↗ · I swear I will help you tomorrow.↗ · The witness swore to tell the truth.↗ · The new mayor was sworn in today.↗ · The knights swore to protect the king.↗ · Some films have swear words in them.↗ · The two cats are sworn enemies.↗ · “I swear to you I did not do it!”↗ · And Abraham said: 'I will swear.'↗ (Torah GEN.21.24, JPS 1917)↗ · And he said: 'Swear unto me.'↗ And he swore unto him.↗ (Torah GEN.47.31, JPS 1917)↗ · And Pharaoh said: 'Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.'↗ (Torah GEN.50.6, JPS 1917)↗ · And though they say: 'As the LORD liveth', surely they swear falsely.↗ (Prophets JER.5.2, JPS 1917)↗ · Where are Thy former mercies, O Lord, which Thou didst swear unto David in Thy faithfulness?↗ (Writings PSA.89.50, JPS 1917)↗ · Swearing and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery! they break all bounds, and blood toucheth blood.↗ (Prophets HOS.4.2, JPS 1917)↗

swearer — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A person who makes an oath, a solemn promise before God.↗

sweareth — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «sweareth» means «swears», a form of «swear».↗ e.g. To swear is to use rude or bad words.↗ Example: When a man voweth a vow unto the LORD, or sweareth an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word; he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.↗ (Torah NUM.30.2, JPS 1917)

sweat — Everyday, meaning 1: Sweat is the salty water that comes out of your skin when you are hot, exercising, ill or nervous.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To sweat means to give out sweat.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To sweat can mean to work very hard, or to worry: don't sweat it means don't worry.↗ Example: I sweat a lot when I play football.↗ · Sweat helps your body cool down.↗ · Drink water when you sweat on hot days.↗ · He was in a cold sweat before the test.↗ · No sweat, I can do that easily!↗ · My T-shirt was wet with sweat after the race.↗ · Have a shower after sport to wash off the sweat.↗ · Don't sweat it; everyone makes mistakes.↗ · The sweat ran down his face, but he dried it with his gauntlet.↗ · In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken; for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.'↗ (Torah GEN.3.19, JPS 1917)↗ · They shall have linen tires upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with any thing that causeth sweat.↗ (Prophets EZK.44.18, JPS 1917)↗

sweater — Everyday, meaning 1: A warm piece of clothing, often knitted from wool, that covers the top half of the body and the arms.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (rare) A person who sweats a lot.↗ Example: Put on your sweater, it's cold outside.↗ · Grandma knitted me a blue sweater.↗ · The sweater costs 30 dollars, but it is 10 dollars off.↗ · My sweater is too itchy.↗ · He took off his sweater after running.↗ · She wore a sweater with a reindeer on it.↗ · I lost my school sweater in the playground.↗ · On John’s footer days she never once forgot his sweater, and she usually carried an umbrella in her mouth in case of rain.↗

sweating — Everyday, meaning 1: Giving out a salty liquid (sweat) through tiny holes in the skin, especially when you are hot, exercising, ill or nervous.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Informal: worrying a lot about something.↗ e.g. I'm sweating about the test.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Working very hard.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Of things like a cold glass or cheese, having little drops of water on the surface.↗ Example: I was sweating after running round the field.↗ · Drink water because you lose water when you are sweating.↗ · The cold can of lemonade was sweating in the sun.↗ · Sweating helps cool your body down.↗ · He was sweating with nerves before the spelling test.↗ · We were sweating buckets on the hot beach.↗ · Shower after sport to wash away the sweat.↗ · Don't sweat it — you'll do fine.↗

swedish — Everyday, meaning 1: From or to do with Sweden, a country in northern Europe.↗ e.g. Swedish food, a Swedish girl.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The language spoken in Sweden (and partly in Finland).↗ Example: We ate Swedish meatballs with jam.↗ · Swedish is spoken in Sweden and parts of Finland.↗ · My pen pal is Swedish and lives in Stockholm.↗ · The Swedish flag is blue with a yellow cross.↗ · Pippi Longstocking is a famous Swedish book character.↗ · "Tack" means "thank you" in Swedish.↗ · The other Danish and Swedish stories are not alarming.↗

sweep — Everyday, meaning 1: To sweep means to clean a floor or path with a brush or broom, pushing dirt away.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To sweep means to move quickly and with force over an area («The wave swept the sandcastle away»).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To sweep means to move in a long, smooth, curving way («She swept her arm across the table»).↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A sweep is a long, curving movement or a complete search of an area.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: A sweep (chimney sweep) is a person who cleans chimneys.↗ Example: Please sweep the kitchen floor.↗ · Sweep up the broken glass carefully.↗ · The flood swept the car away.↗ · A big wave swept over the rocks.↗ · The police made a sweep of the park.↗ · Our team made a clean sweep, winning every race.↗ · Long ago, children worked as chimney sweeps.↗ · Don't sweep your problems under the carpet; talk about them.↗ · He drew the great clean-sweeping sword, and he neared the giant.↗ · And Abraham drew near, and said: 'Wilt Thou indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked?↗ (Torah GEN.18.23, JPS 1917)↗ · Peradventure there are fifty righteous within the city; wilt Thou indeed sweep away and not forgive the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?↗ (Torah GEN.18.24, JPS 1917)↗ · Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will sweep it away with a whirlwind, the raw and the burning alike.↗ (Writings PSA.58.10, JPS 1917)↗ · behold, I will utterly sweep away Baasa and his house; and I will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.↗ (Prophets 1KI.16.3, JPS 1917)↗ · And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plummet; and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding-place.↗ (Prophets ISA.28.17, JPS 1917)↗

sweeper — Everyday, meaning 1: A sweeper is a person whose job is to sweep, such as a street sweeper or road sweeper.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A sweeper is a machine or tool for sweeping, like a carpet sweeper or a street-cleaning truck.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (sport) In football, a sweeper is a defender who plays behind the other defenders to stop attacks.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (sport) In curling, a sweeper brushes the ice in front of the stone.↗ Example: The street sweeper cleaned up the leaves.↗ · A big road sweeper drove past with its brushes spinning.↗ · Nan uses a carpet sweeper on the rug.↗ · He played as the sweeper in our football team.↗ · The sweepers brushed the ice in front of the curling stone.↗ · The sweeper came early to clean the market square.↗ · The news of Nag’s death was all over the garden, for the sweeper had thrown the body on the rubbish-heap.↗

sweeping — Everyday, meaning 1: Sweepings are the dirt, dust and bits of rubbish gathered up by a broom.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Sweeping means large or wide-reaching, as in «sweeping changes».↗ Example: The sweepings were piled by the door.↗ · She threw the sweepings into the bin.↗ · Something round lay among the sweepings.↗ · The king made sweeping changes to the law.↗ · A poor man that oppresseth the weak is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.↗ (Writings PRO.28.3, JPS 1917)↗ · As whirlwinds in the South sweeping on, it cometh from the wilderness, from a dreadful land.↗ (Prophets ISA.21.1, JPS 1917)↗ · Behold, a storm of the LORD is gone forth in fury, a sweeping storm; it shall whirl upon the head of the wicked.↗ (Prophets JER.30.23, JPS 1917)↗

sweet — Everyday, meaning 1: Sweet means tasting like sugar or honey.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Sweets (UK) are candies; a sweet is one candy.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A sweet (UK) is a dessert, the sweet dish at the end of a meal.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Sweet means kind and gentle: a sweet smile.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Sweet means pleasant or cute: a sweet puppy, a sweet smell.↗ Example: Tom has 20 sweets.↗ · He shares his sweets equally among 4 friends.↗ · She ate 3 sweets.↗ · A bag of sweets costs 2 dollars.↗ · Honey tastes sweet.↗ · Brush your teeth after eating sweets.↗ · What a sweet little kitten!↗ · Goodnight, sweet dreams.↗ · My brother has a sweet tooth.↗ · The blooming lychnis exhaled sweet odours.↗ · and he burnt thereon incense of sweet spices; as the LORD commanded Moses.↗ (Torah EXO.40.27, JPS 1917)↗ · oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense; (Torah EXO.25.6, JPS 1917)↗ · and oil for the light, and spices for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense; (Torah EXO.35.8, JPS 1917)↗ · His mouth is most sweet; yea, he is altogether lovely.↗ (Writings SNG.5.16, JPS 1917)↗ · 'Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.'↗ (Writings PRO.9.17, JPS 1917)↗ · Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.↗ (Prophets JER.31.26, JPS 1917)↗

sweeten — Everyday, meaning 1: To sweeten food or drink is to make it taste sweeter, for example by adding sugar, honey or fruit.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To sweeten something can mean to make it nicer or more pleasant: «The fresh air sweetened the room».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To sweeten a deal or offer is to make it more attractive, often by adding something extra.↗ Example: We sweetened the porridge with banana.↗ · Mum sweetens her tea with honey.↗ · Many fizzy drinks are sweetened with lots of sugar.↗ · Ripe apples can sweeten a crumble without extra sugar.↗ · To sweeten the deal, the shop added free batteries.↗ · Dad bought flowers to sweeten Mum's mood.↗ · And when she went away for some honey to sweeten it with, he poured out the drink, and so made the old wife think he had drunk it.↗

sweetened — Everyday, meaning 1: Made sweet by adding sugar, honey or another sweet thing.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Made more pleasant or more attractive, like a deal that has been sweetened with a bonus.↗ Example: She sweetened her tea with honey.↗ · Sweetened drinks are bad for your teeth.↗ · This yoghurt is sweetened with fruit.↗ · The shop sweetened the deal by adding a free toy.↗ · Choose unsweetened cereal for a healthier breakfast.↗ · Some drinks are artificially sweetened.↗ · The tart was sweetened with apples.↗ · This took him some time, but at length he came to a lake whose waters were sweetened with sugar.↗

sweetener — Everyday, meaning 1: A sweetener is something put in food or drink to make it taste sweet, especially a substance used instead of sugar.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Something extra offered to make a deal or idea more attractive.↗ Example: This drink has sweetener instead of sugar.↗ · Honey is a natural sweetener.↗ · Read the label to see which sweetener is used.↗ · Grandad puts sweetener in his tea.↗ · The shop gave a free gift as a sweetener.↗ · Some sweeteners are much sweeter than sugar.↗