Antonyms for swab
swɒbswab

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   • Mop

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1. swabnoun

   implement consisting of a small piece of cotton that is used to apply medication or cleanse a wound or obtain a specimen of a secretion

   Synonyms:
   mop, swob

2. swab, swob, mopverb

   cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle; for cleaning floors

   Synonyms:
   mop, swob

3. swab, swobverb

   wash with a swab or a mop

   "swab the ship's decks"

   Synonyms:
   swob, dab

4. dab, swab, swobverb

   apply (usually a liquid) to a surface

   "dab the wall with paint"

   Synonyms:
   dab, swob, pat

How to use swab in a sentence?

1. Officer Gail Pinsker:

   Everything we communicated to parents about our testing is accurate – utilizing a shallow nasal swab, that parents support using. Unfortunately, blood draw was in the consent form. This was an oversight and now fixed.

2. Crystal Alvarez:

   We are currently doing pool testing, which we do it once a week, with whatever students parents gave consent and nurses drop off the supplies, the students swab themselves, and then that is sent to the lab, and if one of the PCR tests ends up positive, then we rescreen those students with a rapid test.

3. Andrew Brooks:

   It means we no longer have to put health care professionals at risk for infection by performing nasopharyngeal or oropharyngeal collections, we can preserve precious personal protective equipment for use in patient care instead of testing. We can significantly increase the number of people tested each and every day as self-collection of saliva is more quick and scalable than swab collections.

4. Mark Eaker:

   Later that afternoon or evening, they tested her with a nose swab... but the nose swab came back negative.

5. Silvana Tridico:

   You could actually swab the victim's genital area and the suspect's genital area and see if the bacteria's transferred or not.

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