Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to swipe
Participle: swiped
Gerund: swiping
Indicative
Present
| I | swipe |
| you | swipe |
| he;she;it | swipes |
| we | swipe |
| you | swipe |
| they | swipe |
Perfect
| I | have swiped |
| you | have swiped |
| he;she;it | has swiped |
| we | have swiped |
| you | have swiped |
| they | have swiped |
Past
| I | swiped |
| you | swiped |
| he;she;it | swiped |
| we | swiped |
| you | swiped |
| they | swiped |
Pluperfect
| I | had swiped |
| you | had swiped |
| he;she;it | had swiped |
| we | had swiped |
| you | had swiped |
| they | had swiped |
Future
| I | will swipe |
| you | will swipe |
| he;she;it | will swipe |
| we | will swipe |
| you | will swipe |
| they | will swipe |
Future Perfect
| I | will have swiped |
| you | will have swiped |
| he;she;it | will have swiped |
| we | will have swiped |
| you | will have swiped |
| they | will have swiped |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | swipe |
| you | swipe |
| he;she;it | swipe |
| we | swipe |
| you | swipe |
| they | swipe |
Perfect
| I | have swiped |
| you | have swiped |
| he;she;it | have swiped |
| we | have swiped |
| you | have swiped |
| they | have swiped |
Imperfect
| I | swiped |
| you | swiped |
| he;she;it | swiped |
| we | swiped |
| you | swiped |
| they | swiped |
Pluperfect
| I | had swiped |
| you | had swiped |
| he;she;it | had swiped |
| we | had swiped |
| you | had swiped |
| they | had swiped |
Conditional
Present
| I | would swipe |
| you | would swipe |
| he;she;it | would swipe |
| we | would swipe |
| you | would swipe |
| they | would swipe |
Perfect
| I | would have swiped |
| you | would have swiped |
| he;she;it | would have swiped |
| we | would have swiped |
| you | would have swiped |
| they | would have swiped |
Imperative
| you | swipe |
| we | Let's swipe |
| you | swipe |
Verbs conjugated like 'swipe'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'swipe'
sipe,
snipe,
swape,
swive,
swype,
wipe,
dwine,
flipe,
gripe,
hipe,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to take something that does not belong to one
- abduct, abstract, appropriate, bag, bandit, bone, boost, borrow, burglarize, burgle, cheat, chore, convert, cop, cozen, crib, embezzle, filch, fleece, flog, gaffle, half-inch, heist, jack, kidnap, knock off, kype, kyper, liberate, lift, loot, make off with, mill, misappropriate, moonlight requisition, nick, own, peculate, pickpocket, pilfer, pillage, pinch, pirate, plunder, poach, pocket, prig, purloin, raid, ransack, rape, reave, rip, rip off, rob, run off with, snag, snatch, steal, swindle, thieve, walk off with
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From earlier swip (with a short vowel), from Middle English swippen, swype (“to move violently”), from Old English sweopian, swipian, swippan (“to scourge, strike, beat, lash”), from Proto-West Germanic *swippjan, *swipōn, *swipēn, from Proto-Germanic *swipōną, *swipjaną, *swipāną (“to move”), from Proto-Indo-European *sweyb- (“to bend, sway, swing, sweep, swerve, turn”). Cognate with German schwippen (“sway back and forth”), Danish svippe (“to smack; crack a whip”), Icelandic svipa (“riding crop, whip”). Related to sweep, swoop. See: Middle English '
swippen', German, old spelling '
schwippen', Danish '
svippe', Icelandic '
svipa'.
Verbs referencing "swipe"
Dutch
swipen.
Sample Sentences
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The cat swiped at the shoelace.
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He swiped his card at the door.
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Swipe left to hide the toolbar.
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This is the iPhone lock screen with its default Earth wallpaper. To unlock your phone, swipe the slider from left to right. [2008, Erica Sadun, Taking Your iPhone to the Max, Apress, →ISBN, page 27:]
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But really, she is just over it all: the swiping, the monotonous getting-to-know-you conversations and the self-doubt that creeps in when one of her matches fizzles. [2022 August 31, Catherine Pearson, “‘A Decade of Fruitless Searching’: The Toll of Dating App Burnout”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:]
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Zac Efron needs a date. […] But would the actor resort to apps to find a partner? Joking, he said, “Amazingly, when I signed up for Tinder, nobody swiped me! They thought it was fake … That never happened.” [2016 August 2, Lindsay Kimble, “Zac Efron Opens Up About His Dating Woes and Jokes: 'When I Signed Up for Tinder, Nobody Swiped Me!'”, in People:]
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Yas (Vivian Oparah): That is your truth. And, by the way, your man swiped me on Tinder, like, a week ago. […]
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Eric (Benjamin Sarpong-Broni): Mmm, no, I didn't. I didn't swipe you. […] Or anybody. […] I didn't swipe her. [2023, Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia, directed by Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane:]
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Hey! Who swiped my lunch?
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"From Miss Hemmingway. Miss Hemmingway! But—but how did they come into her possession?" / "How?" I said. "Because she jolly well stole them. Pinched them! Swiped them![…]" [1923 May 17, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “(please specify the page)”, in The Inimitable Jeeves, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:]
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Maybe I could swipe some Tintex from the five-and-dime. [1968, Thomas C. Ryan, 00:48:18 from the start, in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter:]