Swat Definition

swŏt
swati, swats, swatted, swatting
verb
To hit with a quick, sharp blow.
Webster's New World
To strike or try to strike something with a sharp blow.
Swatted at the mosquito.
American Heritage

To beat off, as insects; to bat, strike, or hit.

He swatted the mosquito that was buzzing around in his bedroom.
The cat swatted at the feather.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
noun
A quick, sharp blow, as with a bat or swatter.
Webster's New World

Swati.

Webster's New World
A special unit of a law enforcement agency, trained to deal with violence, riots, terrorism, etc.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
pronoun

A valley and a district in NWFP administrative province of Pakistan.

Wiktionary

A river in NWFP administrative province of Pakistan.

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Other Word Forms of Swat

Noun

Singular:
swat
Plural:
swats

Origin of Swat

  • Alteration of squat to squash (obsolete and dialectal)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Swat Sentence Examples

  • Maybe I gave him a swat on his diaper when he was a toddler, but I never really hit him.

  • Whilst the heavier troops moved down the Kabul valley to Pencelaotis (Charsadda) under Perdiccas and Hephaestion, Alexander with a body of lighter-armed troops and cavalry pushed up the valleys which join the Kabul from the north - through the regions now known as Bajour, Swat and Buner, inhabited by Indian hill peoples, as fierce then against the western intruder as their Pathan successors are against the British columns.

  • In 1895 the occupation of points within the Swat territory for the safety of the road from India to Chitral similarly roused the suspicion of the Swatis.

  • Tears wetted her face as men in what looked like black tactical SWAT gear entered the garage.

  • Soon afterwards it receives the Swat river from the north and the Bara river from the south, and after a further course of 40 m.

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