Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to swiftboat
Participle: swiftboated
Gerund: swiftboating
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | swiftboat |
| you | swiftboat |
| he;she;it | swiftboats |
| we | swiftboat |
| you | swiftboat |
| they | swiftboat |
Perfect
| I | have swiftboated |
| you | have swiftboated |
| he;she;it | has swiftboated |
| we | have swiftboated |
| you | have swiftboated |
| they | have swiftboated |
Past
| I | swiftboated |
| you | swiftboated |
| he;she;it | swiftboated |
| we | swiftboated |
| you | swiftboated |
| they | swiftboated |
Pluperfect
| I | had swiftboated |
| you | had swiftboated |
| he;she;it | had swiftboated |
| we | had swiftboated |
| you | had swiftboated |
| they | had swiftboated |
Future
| I | will swiftboat |
| you | will swiftboat |
| he;she;it | will swiftboat |
| we | will swiftboat |
| you | will swiftboat |
| they | will swiftboat |
Future Perfect
| I | will have swiftboated |
| you | will have swiftboated |
| he;she;it | will have swiftboated |
| we | will have swiftboated |
| you | will have swiftboated |
| they | will have swiftboated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | swiftboat |
| you | swiftboat |
| he;she;it | swiftboat |
| we | swiftboat |
| you | swiftboat |
| they | swiftboat |
Perfect
| I | have swiftboated |
| you | have swiftboated |
| he;she;it | have swiftboated |
| we | have swiftboated |
| you | have swiftboated |
| they | have swiftboated |
Imperfect
| I | swiftboated |
| you | swiftboated |
| he;she;it | swiftboated |
| we | swiftboated |
| you | swiftboated |
| they | swiftboated |
Pluperfect
| I | had swiftboated |
| you | had swiftboated |
| he;she;it | had swiftboated |
| we | had swiftboated |
| you | had swiftboated |
| they | had swiftboated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would swiftboat |
| you | would swiftboat |
| he;she;it | would swiftboat |
| we | would swiftboat |
| you | would swiftboat |
| they | would swiftboat |
Perfect
| I | would have swiftboated |
| you | would have swiftboated |
| he;she;it | would have swiftboated |
| we | would have swiftboated |
| you | would have swiftboated |
| they | would have swiftboated |
Imperative
| you | swiftboat |
| we | Let's swiftboat |
| you | swiftboat |
Verbs conjugated like 'swiftboat'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'swiftboat'
lifeboat,
shitpost,
showboat,
skim-coat,
softload,
softsoap,
speedboat,
spincoat,
steamboat,
swifter,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Uncertain: Possibly, swift + boat, or possibly based on an acronym for Shallow Water Inshore Fast Tactical Craft. The use as a political term derives from a smear campaign against John Kerry when Texas tycoon Robert J. Perry hired several Navy swiftboat veterans to form the group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, which questioned the legitimacy of Kerry's status as a war hero.
Sample Sentences
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No one should have been surprised that the Republicans would try to swiftboat Hillary in 2016, turning an accomplished diplomat into a feckless bungler who lied to cover up her own failures. [2015, David Brock, Killing the Messenger, →ISBN:]
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The Borgia family has had such a bad reputation over all these hundreds of years. Some of it is merited, and for some of it, they were swiftboated. The cardinals hired writers to write bad things about them. [2013 January 7, Sam Thielman, “The Man From Oz Finds Religion”, in Adweek:]
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My wife suggested that in absence of a response by Woody, he was being swiftboated. [2014 January 27, Robert B. Weide, “The Woody Allen Allegations: Not So Fast”, in Daily Beast:]
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So you were swiftboated? I was about to be! I was about to be! No, I just said, That's bullshit—first of all, it's William Oliver Stone. And then Dale went back for the files and found them. I did have a record that they couldn't expunge. [2016, Matt Zoller Seitz, The Oliver Stone Experience, →ISBN, page 192:]