Crossword clues for swabbed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Swab \Swab\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swabbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Swabbing.] [See Swabber, n.] To clean with a mop or swab; to wipe when very wet, as after washing; as, to swab the desk of a ship. [Spelt also swob.]
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: swab)
WordNet
n. implement consisting of a small piece of cotton that is used to apply medication or cleanse a wound or obtain a specimen of a secretion
cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle; for cleaning floors [syn: swob, mop]
v. wash with a swab or a mop; "swab the ship's decks" [syn: swob]
apply (usually a liquid) to a surface; "dab the wall with paint" [syn: dab, swob]
See swab
Usage examples of "swabbed".
He swabbed the blood and stuck it straight into the sampling port of the Boink.
We swabbed envelopes and stamps at the West Sussex Record Office, where Ellen Cobden Sickert’s family archives - and, coincidentally, some of Montague John Druitt's family archives - are kept.
He swabbed away the moisture and watched the planes making their approaches.
He stuck the fingers of his left hand under his visor and swabbed it away.
Hopkins swabbed the bioreactor and the equipment, while Littleberry swabbed the walls, corners of the room, and a light switch.
He preferred to treat her as an object, much like the bales and crates littering the freshly swabbed deck.
Gato de Rosa swabbed at the side of his mouth with the bloody handkerchief as the descending elevator tried its best to burst their eardrums.
Ice-cool, he swabbed the barrel, poured his powder, inserted the patch, put in the ball, tamped it down, took aim and killed another.
They went to a field, where Fordney swabbed the bluish barrel, poured in the right amount of powder, pushed down the greased patch to form a bind, inserted the ball and then placed the percussion cap on the nipple.
He perched on the commode with the top down and she sat on his lap, bumming softly as she worked on his face and he swabbed hers.
The doctor swabbed the perspiration from his forehead with his sleeve.
Somehow he got his visor up and swabbed away the sweat that poured into his eyes when he pulled Gs, this while he threaded his way up the valley and looked above and aft to see what the Russian was up to.
We swabbed Whistler envelopes and stamps at the University of Glasgow, where his massive archival collection is kept.
To add to the scientific odds against us when we swabbed envelopes and stamps, we could not possibly know who had licked their envelopes and who had not.
The swabbed samples in the Jack the Ripper case can be imagined as fifty-five sheets of white paper that are cluttered with thousands of different combinations of numbers.