Definition of "swabbed" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of swab. (verb)

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• "Four thousand men in the Wichita area have been what they call swabbed for DNA, not that they are suspects but simply to eliminate people."
• "Routine lab tests using cells swabbed from the inside of a cheek can already expose genetic variations associated with cholesterol, cancer and hundreds of other traits and diseases, both common and rare."
• "Scientific data — soil samples swabbed from the silver itself — placed the treasure's burial site in an area with a geological makeup identical to western Hungary's."