Swifter is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SWIFTER in dictionary:

VERB:
• To tighten, as slack standing rigging, by bringing the opposite shrouds nearer.
NOUN:
• a rope used to tighten or keep a thing in place
• a swift-flying insectivorous bird with long, slender wings and a superficial resemblance to a swallow, spending most of its life on the wing.
• a moth, typically yellow-brown in colour, with fast darting flight. The eggs are scattered in flight and the larvae live underground feeding on roots, where they can be a serious pest.
• a light, adjustable reel for holding a skein of silk or wool.
• line run around the ends of capstan bars
• A rope used to retain the bars of the capstan in their sockets while men are turning it.
• A rope used to encircle a boat longitudinally, to strengthen and defend her sides.
• The forward shroud of a lower mast.
ADVERB:
• swiftly
ADJECTIVE:
• happening quickly or promptly
• moving or capable of moving at high speed
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• moving with a great rate of motion
• a rope on a ship

Words related to SWIFTER

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Words that contain SWIFTER

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How to use SWIFTER in a sentence

• Helma ran to him, swifter than the children, and he kissed her lips.
• From which it may be plainly seen that the progress of virtue is often swifter than that of age.
• The father now broke into a swifter run, almost losing his presence of mind from his great, agonizing fear.
• With every mile the stream became narrower and swifter.
• At last they were opposite a low, willow-covered island, and within a narrow channel where the water, confined between two banks, flowed with swifter current.
• Swifter than an eagle, Perseus flew up towards the sky.
• Already it was receding, swifter and swifter, in the last stage of its headlong journey downward into the sun.
• The crews of vessels engaged in future wars will have, not only swifter, surer torpedo-boats to menace them, but even more dreadful foes.
• The volume of the Euphrates in places is, however, somewhat less than that of the Tigris, which is a swifter and in its latter course a deeper stream.
• She stood, light as air, on a great, shining, golden ball, which rolled along with her, swifter than the wind.
• Searle had not only gained a half-mile lead, but his car was apparently swifter.
• So that was the way of this bloody business thought Jan as, swifter than a bullet, Bill registered another visit to his streaming right shoulder.
• She gave a tremendous leap, and scoured on swifter than before.
• The current becomes indeed swifter as we ascend and the canoes frequently receive water as we drag them with difficulty along.
• It sat there, not visibly tense, seemingly relaxed, yet as evidently looking into some place of inner motion, wider and swifter than that of the night world about it.
• Scientific phrases are used like scientific wheels and piston-rods to make swifter and smoother yet the path of the comfortable.
• I was confident that the bend in the street had hidden me from my pursuer and, as I anticipated, he came on at a swifter rate.
• That the swifter the wing beat, the more efficient its effect per unit of surface, the greater the load carried, and the swifter the flight.
• The current was taking her ever swifter whither she knew not.
• They were still constantly experimenting and hoping for much swifter travel.
• And the cheaper the candy, the swifter the consequent revulsion of feeling.
• As ruin was never before so overwhelming, never was restoration swifter.
• The next ball pitched came up swifter, but just before it crossed the plate it seemed to stop, as if pulled back by a string, and then dropped down.
• He little dreamed that he was soon to follow his messengers in swifter speed.
• The wild geese as they fly northward are not swifter than the warriors of Tarhe.
• It seemed that she was swifter than ourselves, too, from the way she kept her place on our bow.
• Before he knew what he was doing, almost as if a will swifter than his own were at work, he had sprung upon Hunt-Goring and struck him a swinging blow across the shoulders.
• The Ox-demon changed himself many times into a number of birds, but for each of these Sun changed himself into a swifter and stronger one.
• A love as virgin as the snow upon the Everlasting Hills, swifter than Mother Ganges, deeper than the Indian Ocean, and higher than the vault of heaven.

Similar words containing SWIFT without suffix er

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