I. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Earlier this month traces of Salmonella typhimurium were found in swabs taken from the hen house.
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Have each student dip a cotton swab in purple grape juice and rub it over the paper.
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He covered my newest wound with a swab of alcohol and a lozenge of gauze.
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He remembers the glass jars filled with cotton swabs, tongue depressors, latex gloves.
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It is later learned he might also be getting an alcohol swab as well.
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Rectal swabs were cultured for chlamydia.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After a Pap smear is done, the doctor simply swabs vinegar on the cervix and shines the blue-white light on it.
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As they leaned against a red brick wall, a portly prison system official swabbed at the sweat trickling into his collar.
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At Twentieth and Blake he saw a man swabbing a garbage truck.
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He studied her face as she cleaned the skin of the boy's right shoulder and swabbed a patch with alcohol.
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Isaac swabbed perspiration from above his haunted eyes with a rag he kept handy for cleaning the windshield.
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She sits in a soft curve at her easel, gently swabbing away three centuries from a grumpy London sky.
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There was no time for emotion as the blood was swabbed away and she concentrated on the badly gashed cheekbone.