swat

Word family

swat /swɒt $ swɑːt/ verb (swatted, swatting) [transitiveT] → swot

HBIHITto hit an insect in order to kill it 重拍，猛击〔昆虫〕

He calmly swatted a couple of flies.

他冷静地拍死了几只苍蝇。

—swat noun [countableC]

Examples from the Corpus

swat• But just as the buzzer sounds, an impossibly tall defender leaps and swats aside your shot.• Be careful when she swats at a fly or a spider, she may swat you by mistake.• Then he swatted himself across the nose with the 400, and walked out jauntily.• I wait until it fills itself and then I swat it, the blood splashing over my hand.• Then my father would light a candle and we would all swat, stamp and squash as many as we could.• It was a pleasant place, with high ceilings where fans swatted the air.• Doleman wrapped him up with his left hand and swatted the ball loose with his right hand.• They come along with something sharp and heavy and they swat you with it.

Origin swat

(1600-1700) squat in its original meaning “to crush” ((13-19 centuries))

swat verb

Chinese

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