Usually means: Washing vigorously with splashing movements.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. swashing: Merriam-Webster
  2. swashing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. swashing: Vocabulary.com
  4. swashing: Wordnik
  5. swashing: Wiktionary
  6. swashing: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. swashing: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. swashing: Dictionary.com
  9. Swashing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. swashing: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Swashing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. swashing: FreeDictionary.org
  13. Swashing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. swashing: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (swashing)

▸ adjective:  Hectoring; swaggering.
▸ adjective:  Crushing; resounding.
▸ noun:  A back-and-forth movement of liquid; a swish or swash.

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plash, gas, spatter, splatter, splosh, splash, blow, swagger, bluster, gasconade, more...

Types:
buckling, battering, beating, bludgeoning, buffeting, clobbering, pummeling, smacking, more...

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Similar:
plash, gas, spatter, splatter, splosh, splash, blow, swagger, bluster, gasconade, more...

Types:
buckling, battering, beating, bludgeoning, buffeting, clobbering, pummeling, smacking, more...



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