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Definition of switch : A device for shifting an electric current to another circuit, or for making and breaking a circuit.

Synonyms:

project, tilt, pelt, flick, flip-flop, spank, break, line, pause, flogger, length, bewilder, belt, crack, flip, surrogate, replacing, slap, flip over, set up, jump, confuse, transfer, thumb, reversal, reverse, renewal, rap, cuff, fillip, electrical switch, string, beach, transformation, slip, refilling, slam, deal, thud, castigate, chemise, put together, convert, shed, teddy, poke, stroke, pound, shifting, fault, two-handed, box, haymaker, thread, chop, make into, wobble, rearrange, wham, plump, surpass, punch, chastise, alter, dab, clip, thrash, transpose, scourge, pommel, bash, batter, conquer, fast forward, dislodge, stir, swish, tack together, faulting, burrow, vanquish, relieve, swat, swop, welt, flog, make, hurl, throw away, slug, append, cast off, bastinado, strike, whack, hit, commutation, clout, shake off, confound, buffet, bristle, turn into, give, counterchange, pole, sky, dial, knob, shift key, agitate, interchange, smack, cudgel, pick, bruise, tack, give way, turn over, befuddle, claw, tack on, stick, ambidextrous, fuddle, hack, reposition, deepen, hook, twitch, belabor, bop, beat, buck, replenishment, wear round, worst, lurch, release, sock, smite, biff, stripe, take turns, turn, thrust, riffle, piece, switching, whisk, drop, trade in, gore, clap, electric switch, stinger, waggle, strip, hold, shift, douse, make way (for), have, successor, heterotaxy, knock, leaf, permutation, filament, fox, understudy, merchandise, transmutation, larrup, modify, panel, baste, cast, tag on, transform, contrive, change over, spring, frisk, bite, shimmy, sell, lever, swipe, budge, smash, bat, hang on, transposition, duty period, control, lick, switch over, thwack, riff, pitch, master switch, fracture, careen, work shift, discombobulate, assemble, throw, vary, bust, defeat, renew, throw off, bemuse, bang, bedevil, overcome, toss, revise, flip out, wallop, console, whop, thump, geological fault, succeed, sack

reform, effect, shake-up, trend, correction, evolution, alteration, adjustment

displace, change, represent, imitate, subrogate, second, swap, substitute, commute, exchange, supersede, trade, alternate, replace, supplant

replacement, displacement, subrogation, substitution, supersession, alternative

rawhide, scaffold, ax, solitary confinement, prison, truncheon, iron, gibbet, bull whip, lash, rod, jail, noose, pillory, thumbscrew, strap, maiden, electric chair, whipping post, whip, guillotine, birch rod, torture chamber, block, captivity, cane, thong, rack, stocks, gas chamber, gallows, rope, cowhide, stake

Usage examples:

• The next instant the radiance went out, as if turned off by a switch. - "The Necromancers", Robert Hugh Benson.
• The switch, which was new, took some pressure to move. - "Love of Brothers", Katharine Tynan.
• " And you," she said in a lower voice, " used to be"- But the rest of her sentence was lost in the switch of the whip and the jump of her horse, but he thought the word was " kinder." - "Openings in the Old Trail", Bret Harte.