noun, verb
noun (also swath ) (written)
1 a long strip of land, especially one on which the plants or crops have been cut:
The combine had cut a swathe around the edge of the field. * Development has affected vast swathes of our countryside.
2 a large strip or area of sth:
a swathe of hair / fabric / sunlight * The mountains rose above a swathe of thick cloud.
IDIOMS
cut a swathe through sth (of a person, fire, etc.) to pass through a particular area destroying a large part of it:
Building the tunnel would involve cutting a great swathe through the forest.
verb [VN] [usuallypassive] ~ sb/sth (in sth) (written) to wrap or cover sb/sth in sth:
He was lying on the hospital bed, swathed in bandages. * The village was swathed in early morning mist.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for swathe is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does swathe appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — swathe appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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