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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
swingeing
adjective
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▪ Price rises were ineffective unless they were so swingeing as to be ruinous.
▪ The conference kicked off with a swingeing attack on local government reform by Arthur Midwinter, professor of politics at Strathclyde University.
▪ The most immediate consequence was the swingeing repression carried out during the autumn and winter of 1934-5.
▪ There followed a swingeing series of letters between Rodrigo and Berenguer, in which each accused the other of treachery and cowardice.
▪ There will certainly be no complaints from her that far more swingeing penalties have now been introduced.
▪ Universities everywhere were in disarray, faced with swingeing cuts in their funding.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Swingeing

Swingeing \Swinge"ing\, a. Huge; very large. [Colloq.]
--Arbuthnot.
--Byron. -- Swinge"ing*ly, adv.
--Dryden.

Swingeing

Swinge \Swinge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swinged (sw[i^]njd); p. pr. & vb. n. Swingeing (sw[i^]nj"[i^]ng).] [OE. swengen, AS. swengan to shake, causative of swingan. See Swing.]

  1. To beat soundly; to whip; to chastise; to punish.

    I had swinged him soundly.
    --Shak.

    And swinges his own vices in his son.
    --C. Dryden.

  2. To move as a lash; to lash. [Obs.]

    Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail.
    --Milton.

Wiktionary
swingeing

  1. 1 (context British English) large, immense 2 powerful, scathing (''a swingeing verbal attack'') v

  2. (context archaic English) (present participle of swinge English)

WordNet
swingeing

adj. severe; punishingly bad; "swingeing taxation"; "swingeing damages awarded by the judge"

Usage examples of "swingeing".

Ox he had, and a swingeing big Pig, that weighed some six or seven hundred weight, that he was plaguy proud of, but he never offered the old minister anything to eat or drink.

He would have liked to leave the banqueting hall at once with a swingeing curse.

Mogand the swingeing penalty clause for premature discharge was matched by one for premature reclamaof responsibility.