swing

swing
v
1. sway, oscillate, pendulate, librate; vacillate, rock, move back and forth or backward and forward, lurch, yaw; wag, wave, waver, waggle, Naut. jibe; wobble, bob, dangle, hang; seesaw, teeter-totter, ebb and flow, come and go, wibble-wabble; hitch and hike, zigzag, wigwag, pass and repass.
2. curve, veer, turn, lead, steer; lean, go, warp, head, point; wind, crook, arch, hook; circle, encircle, bow, twist.
3.Usu. swing around
whirl, spin, swivel, turn about, turn around; make a U-turn, Sl. pop or hang a U, Sl. bang a U-ie, turn on a dime; put about, heel, turn on one's heel, pivot; wheel, pirouette, gyrate, round, rotate, wamble.
4. shuffle, flounder, vary, alternate, equivocate; shift, blow hot and cold, straddle the fence; tergiversate, quibble, dodge, evade; beat around the bush, hem and haw, beg the question.
5. direct, incline, drive, guide, bias, bend; influence, prevail upon, sway, work upon, move; persuade, win over, talk over; change, alter, vary, transform, convert, modify; engineer, manage, put through, Sl. put over, carry, Inf. negotiate.
n
6. oscillation, vibration, vacillation; fluctuation, libration, vibratility, nutation; pendulation, wag, waggle, wave; rock, lurch, reel, roll; to and fro, flux and reflux, coming and going, Fr. va-et-vient. ebb and flow, ups and downs, teeter-totter.
7. sweep, scope, range, play, carry; compass, reach, stretch, extent, radius; way, room, latitude, leeway, el-bowroom, headroom; margin, space, clearance; freedom of action, free scope, no holds barred, free hand; carte blanche, blank check, free play.
8. rhythm, movement, beat, pulse; regularity, periodicity, meter, cadence, lilt; measure, number or numbers, metrics, pattern.
9. progression, course, curve, drift, current, stream, tide; trend, the way things go, the way the wind blows, the way it is; set, line, run, tack, track.
10. in full swing
Informal. in operation, in business, going, moving, open, Inf. cooking, hopping, underway, under sail; at full steam, in high or fourth gear, on the go, on the run, on the move, on the fly.

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