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 swat is to hit and crush something such as an insect with a swift, small blow.
When you hit and crush a fly, this is an example of a time when you swat the fly.
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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
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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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Below Chitral are found the thickly timbered forests of Dir and Bajour, and the fertile y valles of the Panjkora and Swat rivers.

  • A much smaller work, but one of great interest, is the Swat river canal in the Peshawar valley.

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Words Starting With

SSWSWA

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