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sideswipes

verb , present tense third-person singular of sideswipe

Synonyms and Antonyms of sideswipes

US to cause the side of a vehicle to come into forceful contact with the side of another vehicle

The taxi sideswiped a parked car.

Synonyms and Near Synonyms of sideswipes

bumps, contacts, scrapes, strikes, sweeps, swipes, touches

bashes, bumps, clashes, collides, crashes, hits, impacts, impinges, knocks, rams, slams, smacks, smashes, swipes, thuds, thwacks, whacks

bounces, caroms, glances, rebounds, ricochets, skips

brushes, grazes, kisses, nudges, shaves, skims

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