swaying
Meaning of swaying
verb, gerund or present participle
- move or cause to move slowly or rhythmically backwards and forwards or from side to side.
he swayed slightly on his feet
wind rattled and swayed the trees
- control or influence (a person or course of action).
he's easily swayed by other people
Middle English: corresponding in sense to Low German swājen ‘be blown to and fro’ and Dutch zwaaien ‘swing, walk in a tottering way’.
Information about swaying
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of swaying is: swayings.
- Languages in which swaying is used:
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Hyphenation of swaying
sway-ing
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- swaying is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
swaying synonyms
Meaning move or cause to move back and forth or from side to side while suspended or on an axis:
Meaning (of a structure or area of land) tremble or vibrate:
Meaning move or swing back and forth in a regular rhythm:
Meaning the solid mineral material forming part of the surface of the earth and other similar planets, exposed on the surface or underlying the soil:
Meaning move or go with a smooth up-and-down motion:
Meaning walk or move unsteadily, as if about to fall:
Meaning move or cause to move unsteadily from side to side:
Meaning make an abrupt, unsteady, uncontrolled movement or series of movements; stagger:
Meaning lose one's balance and stagger or lurch violently:
Meaning move in a particular direction by turning over and over on an axis:
Meaning make a list of:
Meaning trip or momentarily lose one's balance; almost fall:
Meaning (of a moving ship, aircraft, or vehicle) rock or oscillate around a lateral axis, so that the front moves up and down:
Meaning (of a boat or ship) turn over on its side; capsize:
Meaning change direction suddenly:
Meaning change or cause to change direction abruptly:
Meaning move in a quivering way; flicker:
Meaning rise and fall irregularly in number or amount:
Meaning waver between different opinions or actions; be indecisive:
Meaning occur in turn repeatedly:
Meaning differ in size, amount, degree, or nature from something else of the same general class:
Meaning use ambiguous language so as to conceal the truth or avoid committing oneself:
Meaning pause in indecision before saying or doing something:
Meaning have an influence on:
Meaning have an effect on; make a difference to:
Meaning cause to feel or show inclination or prejudice for or against someone or something:
Meaning induce (someone) to do something through reasoning or argument:
Meaning change the form, character, or function of something:
Meaning handle or control (a tool, mechanism, information, etc.) in a skilful manner:
Meaning force or be forced to submit:
Meaning form (an object) out of malleable material:
Meaning try to influence or thwart by underhand or unfair methods:
Words that rhyme with swaying
betra'ying, Maying, abraying, affraying, alaying, allaying, apaying, appaying, arraying, assaying, baying, belaying, bendaying, beraying, betraying, bewraying, bioassaying, braying, bricklaying, cardplaying, causewaying, claying, daying, decaying, deejaying, defraying, delaying, denaying, deraying, disarraying, dismaying, displaying, doomsaying, downplaying, draying, effraying, embaying, endplaying, essaying, estraying, faying, flaying, foraying, forelaying, foresaying, forraying, forsaying, fraying, gainsaying, gatewaying
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