past form and past participle
Cleaned a part of the body or collected a sample using a swab.
The nurse swabbed the wound before bandaging it.
The inside of his cheek was swabbed at the clinic.
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How to pronounce swabbed
verbB2
SWAABD
/swæbd̚/
One syllable.
Form of swab
Cleaned a part of the body or collected a sample using a swab.
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Related words & forms
The final consonant is doubled before -ed and -ing: swabbed, swabbing.