SWIPE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does swipe mean? 

• SWIPE (noun)
  The noun SWIPE has 1 sense:

1. a sweeping stroke or blow

  Familiarity information: SWIPE used as a noun is very rare.

• SWIPE (verb)
  The verb SWIPE has 2 senses:

1. strike with a swiping motion

2. make off with belongings of others

  Familiarity information: SWIPE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SWIPE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sweeping stroke or blow

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("swipe" is a kind of...):

shot; stroke ((sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand)

Derivation:

swipe (strike with a swiping motion)

• SWIPE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they swipe    ... he / she / it swipes   
Past simple: swiped   
Past participle: swiped   
-ing form: swiping   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Strike with a swiping motion

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "swipe" is one way to...):

hit (deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

The fighter managed to swipe his opponent

Also:

sideswipe (strike from the side)

Derivation:

swipe (a sweeping stroke or blow)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make off with belongings of others

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

abstract; cabbage; filch; hook; lift; nobble; pilfer; pinch; purloin; snarf; sneak; swipe

Hypernyms (to "swipe" is one way to...):

rip; rip off; steal (take without the owner's consent)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something from somebody

 Context examples 

Swiping a cotton swab around the capsaicin patch consistently caused control participants to feel pain, which allowed each one to correctly identify where the inflammation was even though they could not see their arms.

(Study identifies gene that makes gentle touch feel painful after injury, National Institutes of Health)