swing over

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   influence decisively

   “This action swung many votes over to his side”

   Synonymsswing

   Broaderinfluence

Questions about swing over

What does swing over mean?

swing over means "influence decisively".

What is another word for swing over?

Close synonyms include swing. 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 swing over a common word?

swing over 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.