swoosh
Americanverb (used without object)
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swooshes,
present (3rd person singular)
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swooshed,
past participle, past
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swooshing
present participle
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to move with or make a rustling, swirling, or brushing sound.
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to pour out swiftly.
verb (used with object)
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swooshes,
present (3rd person singular)
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swooshed,
past participle, past
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swooshing
present participle
noun
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swooshes
plural
verb
noun
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Nouns
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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swooshsimple
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swooshessimple
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have swooshedperfect
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has swooshedperfect
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am swooshingprogressive
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are swooshingprogressive
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is swooshingprogressive
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have been swooshingperfect progressive
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has been swooshingperfect progressive
Past
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swooshedsimple
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had swooshedperfect
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was swooshingprogressive
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were swooshingprogressive
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had been swooshingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of swoosh
First recorded in 1865–70; imitative
Example Sentences
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The swoosh may outperform Wall Street’s expectations when it reports fiscal fourth-quarter earnings on June 30.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
The team strode into the arena wearing black shirts with her signature bun peeking out from a Nike swoosh.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2025
Atop his head was a black hat with a white Nike swoosh.
From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2024
For the match, Kane also wore Nike boots with a gold swoosh on the side.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 26, 2023
He ran a finger over the swoosh, fiddled with the laces, and then finally put one on.
From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty
She wore no-nonsense sneakers with pink swooshes and carried two FedEx boxes.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026
Throughout the treatment, there are the sounds of repeated brush swooshes, shampoo lathering and sloshing water.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2024
The Paralympic logo of three swooshes, known as the Agitos, is stamped on the medals for the Aug. 28-Sept.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2024
As Hernandez laughs, Murphy goes on: “I talked to Nike the other day. They said it was really hard to put the Nike swooshes on orange jumpsuits.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 15, 2020
They have multiple tongues and multiple swooshes, so I decided to double layer my socks to match it.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2019
When she swooshed out the doors of the White House after one particularly pointed encounter with Trump, her sunglasses and burnt-orange winter coat were quickly the stuff of social media memes.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 17, 2022
He had similar childhood epiphanies whenever cars swooshed by on the neighboring highway, or when his father flicked on his electric razor.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 11, 2019
Most had swooshed out past New Orleans and around English Turn.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 25, 2019
“I want to be a lifestyle brand,” she declared two weeks before the Nordstrom appearance, pink-manicured fingertips firmly on the wheel of her white Mercedes as it swooshed down the U.S.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2015
He had gone to the window and stood looking out at the waves of rain that swooshed against the pane.
From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
"I was following a path along the valley when I suddenly felt something hit the back of my head accompanied by a swooshing sound," Nigel Crompton said.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2025
No one on the ground will be tempted to duck, and it will not appear as a fireball swooshing across the heavens.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2023
Spike Lee showed that by using it to set the tone in “He Got Game,” notably in the gleaming introduction: We see balls swooshing through hoops all over America, from cornfields to city streets.
From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2023
I also found out that it lets me turn my cursor into a lightsaber that plays the swooshing sounds as I move my mouse around until I toggle the feature again by typing lightsaber.
From The Verge ● Jun. 24, 2022
I am lulled to sleep by the swooshing sound of the car sailing down the highway, the ride so smooth, like Baba said.
From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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