Modifies a noun

• cut: Prime Minister: First of all, I have to take issue with you about swingeing cuts in our Armed Forces.

• penalty: If the price condition can't be imposed lawfully then compliance is effectively by agreement and the swingeing penalties come into play.

• attack: Have had a swingeing sharp attack in Sydney; beating the fields for two nights, Saturday and Sunday.

• increase: Thatâs assuming one could afford walking boots after swingeing local tax increases!

• taxis: We have always resisted the lure of living in London, or the equally strong attraction of escaping swingeing British taxes by living abroad.

• criticism: He also questions the evidential base on which the apparently swingeing criticisms are based.