swing

About 8.70 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.

   The plant swung in the breeze.

2. verb To dance.
3. verb To ride on a swing.

   The children laughed as they swung.

4. verb To participate in the swinging lifestyle; to participate in wifeswapping.
5. verb To hang from the gallows; to be punished by hanging, swing for something or someone; (often hyperbolic) to be severely punished.
6. verb To make the ball move sideways in its trajectory.
7. verb To move sideways in its trajectory.
8. verb To fluctuate or change.

   It wasn't long before the crowd's mood swung towards restless irritability.

Similar words

sway dangle sweep cut get around jive drop lilt baseball swing golf shot

Often followed by

of the and in to back from at is

Word family

swinging swings swung