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Verb
Not so reassuring for any commoners, faced with an ongoing cost-of-living crisis and swingeing arts cuts liable only to seal the drawbridge shut.—Mike McCahill, Variety, 8 May 2023
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Etymology
Verb (1)
Middle English swengen to shake, from Old English swengan; akin to Old English swingan
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