Usually means: Imposing severe and excessive penalties.
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  1. swingeing: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. swingeing: Merriam-Webster
  3. swingeing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. swingeing: Collins English Dictionary
  5. swingeing: Vocabulary.com
  6. swingeing: Wordnik
  7. swingeing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. swingeing: Wiktionary
  9. swingeing: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. swingeing: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. swingeing: Dictionary.com
  12. Swingeing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. swingeing: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. swingeing: Rhymezone
  15. Swingeing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. swingeing: FreeDictionary.org
  17. swingeing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. swingeing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  (chiefly British) Huge, immense.
▸ adjective:  Heavy, powerful, scathing.

Similar:
bad, swinging, whacking, walloping, banging, bouncing, swole, swayful, big-ass, gimongous, more...

Opposite:
lenient, mild, gentle, moderate, restrained

Types:
draconian, harsh, brutal, savage, severe, punitive, more...

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Similar:
bad, swinging, whacking, walloping, banging, bouncing, swole, swayful, big-ass, gimongous, more...

Opposite:
lenient, mild, gentle, moderate, restrained

Types:
draconian, harsh, brutal, savage, severe, punitive, more...



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