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  • v  burn superficially or lightly
  • s  severe; punishingly bad
    swingeing taxation
    swingeing damages awarded by the judge

  • Increasing numbers of moderate Labour MPs suspect that the only way to attract new donors and ultimately to avoid a swingeing defeat at the next general election is to replace .
  • In the 1946-47 season he played a deeply original Fool that struck the critics almost as strongly as Olivier's Lear, and he did a swingeing good De Guiche in Guthrie's Cyrano.
  • After years of boom, the gap between rich and poor in Britain has actually widened, while higher earners face swingeing future taxes to plug a widening deficit.
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  • Readers Write: BDS movement and Israeli economy; EU's history of ill-treatment of Israel
    In a recent article, The Guardian states that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has "launched a swingeing attack on supporters of a boycott of Israel ... and urged the country's friends to 'expose and outflank' them by emphasising its high-tech achievements and global economic appeal." It contains no mention of the growing boycott, divestment, sanctions movement that seeks to correct ...
    March 24, 2014 - Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News

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