swat
verb/swɒt/
/swɑːt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they swat | /swɒt/ /swɑːt/ |
| he / she / it swats | /swɒts/ /swɑːts/ |
| past simple swatted | /ˈswɒtɪd/ /ˈswɑːtɪd/ |
| past participle swatted | /ˈswɒtɪd/ /ˈswɑːtɪd/ |
| -ing form swatting | /ˈswɒtɪŋ/ /ˈswɑːtɪŋ/ |
- swat something to hit something, especially an insect, using your hand or a flat object
- He was trying to swat a fly with a rolled-up newspaper.
Oxford Collocations DictionarySwat is used with these nouns as the object:- fly
- mosquito
Word Originearly 17th cent. (in the sense ‘sit down’): northern English dialect and US variant of squat.Want to learn more?
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