switch
/swɪt͡ʃ/ verb B1- To exchange. · I want to switch this red dress for a green one.
- To change (something) to the specified state using a switch. · Switch the light on.
- To whip or hit with a switch.
- To change places, tasks, etc. · I want to switch to a different seat.
- To get angry suddenly; to quickly or unreasonably become enraged.
- To swing or whisk. · to switch a cane
- To be swung or whisked. · The angry cat's tail switched back and forth.
- To trim.
He/she/it switches · Past switched · Past participle switched · -ing form switching
Verb forms
- Base form
- switch
- He/she/it
- switches
- Past
- switched
- Past participle
- switched
- -ing form
- switching
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
Albert vented his anger on a pile of newspapers, which he sent flying all over the office by switching them violently with his stick; after which ebullition he departed—not, however, without walking several times to the door of the press-room, as if he had half a mind to enter.
But if you’ll take my advice--which I suppose you won’t do, although I’ve brought up ten children and buried two--you’ll do that ‘talking to’ you mention with a fair-sized birch switch.
The amiable suggestion of the birch switch--to the efficiency of which all of Mrs.
And most of the wolves began to gather round Shere Khan, whose tail was beginning to switch.
Other matches
- switch A device to turn electric current on and off or... B1
- switch Pertaining to riding with the front and back fe... C2
- switch off To stop or disable a device by turning a switch...
- switch on To start or enable a device by turning a switch...
- switch out To exchange or swap one
- switch up To change, usually in regards to how one feels,...
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