swage

Other forms of swage

plural

swages·

past tense

swaged·

present participle

swaging·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about swage

What does swage mean?

swage means "a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in swage?

swage has 1 syllable: swage.

What is another word for swage?

Close synonyms include upset, upset. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is swage a common word?

swage is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.