MEANING
1. To wrap or cover something in cloth or surrounding layers.
2. A broad strip or expanse of material or land.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- swathe in cloth
- swathed in mist
On the page
The towers were swathed in morning mist.
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Word forms
- Base
- swathe
- Past tense
- swathed
- Past participle
- swathed
- Present participle
- swathing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- swathe
- Present continuous
- am/is/are swathing
- Present perfect
- have/has swathed
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been swathing
- Past
- swathed
- Past continuous
- was/were swathing
- Past perfect
- had swathed
- Past perfect continuous
- had been swathing
- Future
- will swathe
- Future continuous
- will be swathing
- Future perfect
- will have swathed
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been swathing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: swathe; swathes; swathed; swathed; swathing. Noun singular swathe; plural swathes. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description, character, dialogue. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: swathes.
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