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swab

verb as in clean

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Objects included “speaker wire, an AAA battery, open safety pins, a plastic cup, straws, a marble, and a cotton-tipped swab.”

She submitted to a DNA swab after some discussions between the authorities and her lawyer.

This consists of a tarred rope, or a flexible whip-stalk, three-fourths of an inch in diameter, with a swab or bulbous end.

I say, you young cub down there,” shouted the skipper to him from the hatchway, “come up and swab this deck.

A Lascar is standing by grinning, with a bucket of water and a deck-swab; they want to begin holystoning down the decks.

Then I jumps off my white mule, takes the swab by the heels, an' chucks him over the warehouse into a cactus bush.

Gordon is gone from us, and his name will pass, like that of the “swab” Tyler, into the quietude of the history-books.

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On this page you'll find 27 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to swab, such as: daub, mop, scrub, sponge, wash, and wipe.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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