SWIPES Synonyms: 239 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

Definition of swipes

plural of swipe

as in punches

a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument one swipe of a grizzly's paw can do a person in

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verb

present tense third-person singular of swipe

as in bumps

to come into usually forceful contact with something a blindfolded partygoer swiping at the piñata with a stick spent most of the camping trip swiping mosquitos

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as in slaps

to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner that car just swiped the fender of our car

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as in steals

to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep somebody swiped the stop sign that used to be on the corner left his phone at the library and it got swiped

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Noun

Behind the metallic Ray-Ban logo on the right temple is a touch surface for taps and swipes to accept calls and control audio playback. — Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 13 Oct. 2026 On social media, the campaign has highlighted events such as Begich’s visit to the Alaska State Fair and recently has taken swipes at Hill. — Becky Bohrer, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026 Users can switch back to the original layout, Narasimhan says, and Reels will be unmuted once a user swipes or clicks into a video. — Mia Sato, The Verge, 8 Oct. 2026 Fair warning, these are exactly the kind of candy a parent spots in a kid’s trick-or-treat bag and swipes as candy tax. — Danielle Bouchard, Martha Stewart, 8 Oct. 2026 The exact lipstick your friend swipes on will not necessarily land the same way on you. — Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 1 Oct. 2026 The display glasses didn’t always respond to thumb swipes and sometimes lagged after voice commands. — Sebastian Herrera, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2026 According to RevitaLash, apply a few swipes of the serum to clean lashes once per day. — Iman Balagam, Vogue, 27 Aug. 2026 Their swipes at one another have escalated so much that the sitting president has threatened to take away O’Donnell’s citizenship. — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Aug. 2026

Verb

Gaga then swipes concealer under her eyes, on the center of her forehead and around her mouth. — Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 3 Sep. 2026 When someone swipes a card, the device can capture account information and the PIN used during the transaction. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 24 Aug. 2026 Geomagnetic conditions are expected to intensify late tonight into early tomorrow, if the CME swipes Earth, according to the latest forecast from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC). — Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 12 May 2026 In season one, Coop swipes jewelry, expensive wine, designer handbags and more to pay his alimony, child support and to keep up appearances in a neighborhood where appearances are all that matter. — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 3 Apr. 2026 Sure, the sequence largely swipes away hints given prior that Bowser was an absent father, but in a film where most of the characters veer toward the blandly nice, watching a dad and his son bond over their same sociopathic tendencies was the only moment that tugged at the heartstrings. — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 31 Mar. 2026 Proponents said the change will help businesses better absorb the transaction fees that credit card companies are allowed to charge each time someone swipes their credit card. — Barbara Hoberock, Oklahoman, 19 Feb. 2026 Soon after, a desperate man named Boomba, who witnessed Ma stealing from the shelter, breaks into her home and swipes her food, her phone, and a purse containing her family’s invaluable travel documents. — Tope Folarin, The Atlantic, 8 Nov. 2025 Wednesday swipes Enid’s driver’s-ed consent form to sneak off to visit Tyler at Willow Hill Psychiatric Hospital. — Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for swipes

Noun

The farm offers a punch card to residents for $18 and is good for up to 14 punches or around 21 bags of debris.

— Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 18 Oct. 2026
Hadribeaj attacked the body early, crouching beneath Fundora’s punches and landing looping shots over the top.

— ABC News, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of punches

Verb

Did join Kylian Mbappe and Ferenc Puskas as one of only three players to score a European Cup knockout-phase brace against Barcelona at Camp Nou, which bumps him up the list a bit.

— Tim Spiers, New York Times, 26 May 2026
The department bumps the call to a higher-priority response (Priority 1) due to the potential for violence.

— Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 May 2026

Definition of bumps

Verb

There’s seat-shaking violence in how the whale breaches the surface and slams its weight back down (the crafty sound design is by James Miller) and body horror in its claustrophobic, spongy inner chambers.

— Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026
There are currently more than 85,000 customers without power across the Northeast, including New York City and Connecticut, as an intensifying early-season nor’easter slams the region with strong wind, soaking rain and coastal flooding.

— Rebekah Riess, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of slams

Noun

The Spanish golfer was leading by two strokes on 14-under par when Saturday’s play at the DP World India Championship was suspended because of fading light, with most of the field yet to finish their third round.

— ABC News, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2026
One of the many clever strokes in Andrew O’Hagan’s 2024 novel Caledonian Road was casting his floundering, public intellectual hero as the author of a best-selling biography of Johannes Vermeer.

— Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 17 Oct. 2026

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