Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Strained and weakened in the back or loins: noting horses that have been injured by overwork.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Bent down, and hollow in the back; sway-backed; -- said of a horse.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
sway . - adjective
Bent backwards, as inswayback
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Examples
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New moon was so cohesive and rarely swayed from the story line.
Twilight Lexicon » IESB: Chris Weitz New Moon DVD Interview 2010
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Among the swayed is Ed Asner, who is no less easy to impress than Carl, the squat and stolid 78-year-old coot he speaks for in Up. I got the job and thought, 'OK, I'm going to do a voice-over in a big-time feature.'
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Congressional members are not unchanging monoliths of obstinence that can never be swayed from a ‘no’.
Matthew Yglesias » CQ Study Shows Obama’s Legislative Strategy is Working 2010
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Do your research on some of the rulings and opinions by these Judges of the highest court in the land, only a small few have swayed from the political party who picked them. i.e.,
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Congressional members are not unchanging monoliths of obstinence that can never be swayed from a ‘no’.
Matthew Yglesias » CQ Study Shows Obama’s Legislative Strategy is Working 2010
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The twain swayed to and fro battling throughout the length and breadth of the valley and manfully enduring the stress of combat singular, whilst all eyes upon them were fixed in admiring surprise: after which they wheeled about and foined and feinted for
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The curtain swayed away, the wind breaking it and pushing it forth, its parting sweep heard to my ears through the mute nothing of a bare room.
Strange Fiction 1 Hal Duncan 2006
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Louis had rushed his boy while he still swayed from the motion of the hard voyage, from the moment when his dark suffering eyes looked up into Elizabeth Cary's face, despair left them.
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As the train swayed it thrust the bouquet right into my eyes.
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Anthony: Winning NCAA title swayed decision to leave early
USATODAY.com 2006
agustinolvera commented on the word swayed
Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer pg. 231
"I would not be swayed by my own wishes."
December 2, 2010