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swash

/swosh, swawsh/US // swɒʃ, swɔʃ //UK // (swɒʃ) //

挥霍,挥舞,挥霍无度,挥舞着

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to splash, as things in water, or as water does: Waves were swashing against the piers.
    • : to dash around, as things in violent motion.
    • : to swagger.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to dash or cast violently, especially to dash around, down, etc.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the surging or dashing, sometimes violent, of water, waves, etc.
    • : the sound made by such dashing: the thunderous swash of the waves.
    • : the ground over which water washes.
    • : Chiefly Southeastern U.S. a channel of water through or behind a sandbank.
    • : Printing. an extending ornamental flourish, as on letters of certain fonts of italic or cursive type.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : Printing. noting or pertaining to a character having a swash: a swash letter.

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Examples

  • It was for no lucre of gain I took you and your swash-buckler, your Don Diego yonder, under my poor roof.

  • Here were poor innocent working men, and here was this bloodthirsty swash-buckler inciting their own brothers to slay them.

  • Ben Gile began to swash his bucket up and down, up and down, in the stream until the water fairly rocked.

  • One minute I'd see the skipper and the mate h'isted up in the air, hammerin' for dear life, and then, swash!

  • Their meek eyes followed him as he stumped into the swash and kicked up two belaying-pins floating in the debris.