"swinge" meaning in English

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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English swengen (“to strike”), from Old English swenġan (“to dash, strike; to cause to swing”), from Proto-West Germanic *swangijan (“to cause to swing”).",
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    {
      "form": "swinges",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "swinging",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "swingeing",
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        "participle",
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    },
    {
      "form": "swinged",
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        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "swinged",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:",
          "text": "The scorching flame fore swinged all his face",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To singe."
      ],
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        [
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          "singe"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) To singe."
      ],
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        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
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          "ref": "1629, John Milton, “On the Morning of Christs Nativity”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC, page 9:",
          "text": "Th' old Dragon underground / In ſtraiter limits bound, / Not half ſo far caſts his uſurped ſvvay, / And vvrath to ſee his Kingdom fail, / Svvindges the ſcaly Horrour of his foulded tail.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To move like a lash; to lash."
      ],
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          "lash"
        ]
      ],
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        "(archaic) To move like a lash; to lash."
      ],
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        "archaic"
      ]
    },
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        {
          "ref": "c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 80, column 2:",
          "text": "For certaine words he ſpake againſt your Grace / In your retirment, I had ſwing'd him ſoundly.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1686 (first performance), A[phra] Behn, The Luckey Chance, or An Alderman’s Bargain. A Comedy. […], London: […] R. H[olt], for W. Canning, […], published 1687, →OCLC, Act III, scene [iv], page 37:",
          "text": "Sir Fee[ble]. 'Tis—Jealouſie, the old VVorm that bites— [Aſide] VVho is it you ſuſpect? / Sir Cau[tious]. Alas I knovv not vvhom to ſuſpect, I vvou'd I did; but if you cou'd diſcover him—I vvou'd ſo ſvvinge him.—",
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        {
          "ref": "1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden Jun., transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Fourteenth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC, page 279, line 79:",
          "text": "And ſwinges his own Vices in his Son.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To strike hard."
      ],
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        "(archaic) To strike hard."
      ],
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          "ref": "a. 1575, unknown author, The Marriage of Wit and Wisdom:",
          "text": "O, the passion of God, so I shall be swinged. / So, my bones shall be bangedǃ / The porridge pot is stolenː what, Lob, say, / Come away, and be hangedǃ",
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        "To chastise; to beat."
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          "beat",
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        "(obsolete) To chastise; to beat."
      ],
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        "obsolete"
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        "A swinging blow."
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        "(archaic) A swinging blow."
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        "Power; sway; influence."
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        "(obsolete) Power; sway; influence."
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        "To singe."
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        "(obsolete) To singe."
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          "text": "Th' old Dragon underground / In ſtraiter limits bound, / Not half ſo far caſts his uſurped ſvvay, / And vvrath to ſee his Kingdom fail, / Svvindges the ſcaly Horrour of his foulded tail.",
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        "To move like a lash; to lash."
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        "(archaic) To move like a lash; to lash."
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          "text": "For certaine words he ſpake againſt your Grace / In your retirment, I had ſwing'd him ſoundly.",
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          "ref": "1686 (first performance), A[phra] Behn, The Luckey Chance, or An Alderman’s Bargain. A Comedy. […], London: […] R. H[olt], for W. Canning, […], published 1687, →OCLC, Act III, scene [iv], page 37:",
          "text": "Sir Fee[ble]. 'Tis—Jealouſie, the old VVorm that bites— [Aſide] VVho is it you ſuſpect? / Sir Cau[tious]. Alas I knovv not vvhom to ſuſpect, I vvou'd I did; but if you cou'd diſcover him—I vvou'd ſo ſvvinge him.—",
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          "text": "And ſwinges his own Vices in his Son.",
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        "To strike hard."
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        "(archaic) To strike hard."
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        "(obsolete) To chastise; to beat."
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