I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
cut
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They cut a swathe through the massed black-clad warriors, and then turning swiftly trampled back over their disorganized ranks.
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He took out his knife and cut a swathe to the hollow.
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I went back to the States and was going to cut my swathe in society in Washington.
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Doomsday cuts a swathe across the States and takes on Superman in a clash of the titans.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cut a swathe through sth
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Unemployment is cutting a wide swathe through the West.
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They cut a swathe through the massed black-clad warriors, and then turning swiftly trampled back over their disorganized ranks.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a swathe of beige cloth
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The fire had destroyed huge swathes of land.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Great swathes of the world don't even have electricity or roads, let alone an information superhighway.
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He took out his knife and cut a swathe to the hollow.
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It was like a smile, it was like a little Eden of thoughtful pleasure: a swathe of allotments.
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Only the water itself, its wildly fluctuating level carving a swathe of devastation along the shore, betrays the deception.
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She would start nearest to the door and work her way along the jostling, glistening, pouring swathes of colours.
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They cut a swathe through the massed black-clad warriors, and then turning swiftly trampled back over their disorganized ranks.
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This effectively excludes vast swathes of the planet's population.
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This time the front door was open and a swathe of sunlight lay across the red-tiled floor.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As a cool breeze swathed his sweat-drenched body he realized they had taken his clothes.
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Brown and white bunting swathed the edges of the small stage.
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He is swathed in chains, from which hang trophies - namely the heads of his victims, hanging by their hair.
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Her attraction to him had hardly been swathed in subtlety.
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No clouds swathed it, no breeze cooled him.
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She was swathed in a red silk dress that fitted where it touched.
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They were the Mien, whose blue-turbaned women were swathed in dark robes accented with red wool ruffs.