MEANING
1. To move, or move something, with a soft sweeping or rushing sound.
2. A soft rushing sound or a sweeping movement that produces it.
3. Stylishly smart or impressively luxurious.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- swish through grass
- swish a tail
- swish past
On the page
Reeds swished as she passed.
The horse swished its tail against the flies.
Her coat swished across the wet grass.
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Word forms
- Base
- swish
- Past tense
- swished
- Past participle
- swished
- Present participle
- swishing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- swish
- Present continuous
- am/is/are swishing
- Present perfect
- have/has swished
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been swishing
- Past
- swished
- Past continuous
- was/were swishing
- Past perfect
- had swished
- Past perfect continuous
- had been swishing
- Future
- will swish
- Future continuous
- will be swishing
- Future perfect
- will have swished
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been swishing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: environment. Forms: swish; swishes; swished; swished; swishing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: swishes.
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