sway
has definitions from the field of nautical
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[ verb ] move back and forth in an unstable manner
Examples "the ship was rocking" "the tall building swayed" "the tree shook in the wind" Used in print (Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)Calloused fingers , caressed only by the smoothness of polished rosaries , had swayed excitedly beneath puckered chins where tiny black hairs sprouted , never to be tweezed away . It swayed with the wicker swings and screeched with the rusted hinges of screen_doors . Related terms move_back_and_forth totter swag roll nutate rock wag rocking_chair rock |
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[ verb ] move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner
Synonyms Examples "He swung back" Used in print (Glenn Infield, "America's Secret Poison Gas Tragedy"...)Unsinkable slowed and stopped , hundreds of brilliant white flares swayed eerily down from the black , the air_raid sirens ashore rose in a keening shriek , the anti-aircraft guns coughed and chattered - and above it all motors roared and the bombs came whispering and wailing and crashing down among the ships at anchor at Bari . |
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[ verb ] win approval or support for
Examples "Carry all before one" "His speech did not sway the voters" Used in print (The Dallas Morning News,...)Statements by other legislators that Dallas is paying for all its water_program by local bonds , and that less populous places would benefit most by the pending bill , did not sway Cotten 's attack . |
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