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swung

American  
[swuhng] / swʌŋ /

verb

  1. simple past tense and past participle of swing.


swung British  
/ swʌŋ /

verb

  1. the past tense and past participle of swing

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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She’s become an international star as well, in the UK’s Swung, France’s high-profile criminal profile Mesrine: Killer Instinct and Mesrine: Public Enemy #1, and Chile’s The Memory of Water.

From The Verge • Jun. 13, 2017

Swung on and…It’s a high fly ball into deep right field and he is …

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2016

Swung nicely out the middle of the bat to the square leg boundary for four runs.

From The Guardian • Jul. 18, 2015

“I wasn’t really worried about anything bothering me. Went out there and got a couple of three-ball counts. Swung hard trying to hit it far.”

From Washington Times • Mar. 29, 2015

It was our war-ship Clampherdown, And grimly did she roll; Swung round to take the cruiser's fire As the White Whale faces the Thresher's ire, When they war by the frozen Pole.

From Poems Every Child Should Know The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library by Burt, Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth)

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