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Aswim and Swim Definitions

Aswim

Swimming or immersed (in or with something).

Swim

To move through or on top of water by moving the limbs, fins, or tail or by undulating the body
Ducks swam in the pond.

Aswim

Brimming with liquid.
Eyes aswim with tears

Swim

To play or relax in water
The children went swimming in the surf.

Swim

To float on water or another liquid
Suds swam on the surface of the dishwater.
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Swim

To be covered or flooded with a liquid
Chicken swimming in gravy.

Swim

To possess a superfluity; abound
After winning the lottery, she was swimming in money.

Swim

To experience a floating or giddy sensation; be dizzy
"his brain still swimming with the effects of the last night's champagne" (Robert Smith Surtees).

Swim

To appear to float or spin slowly
The room swam before my eyes.

Swim

To move through or across (a body of water or a distance) by swimming
She swam the channel. I swam 10 laps.
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Swim

To execute (a particular stroke) in swimming.

Swim

The act of swimming
Went for a swim before lunch.

Swim

A distance covered by or period of time spent swimming.

Swim

An area, as of a river, abounding in fish.

Swim

Of, relating to, or used for swimming
A swim mask.

Swim

(intransitive) To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means.

Swim

(intransitive) To become immersed in, or as if in, or flooded with, or as if with, a liquid
Swimming in self-pity
A bare few bits of meat swimming in watery sauce

Swim

(intransitive) To move around freely because of excess space.

Swim

(transitive) To traverse (a specific body of water, or a specific distance) by swimming; or, to utilize a specific swimming stroke; or, to compete in a specific swimming event.
For exercise, we like to swim laps around the pool.
I want to swim the 200-yard breaststroke in the finals.

Swim

To cause to swim.
To swim a horse across a river
Half of the guinea pigs were swum daily.

Swim

To float.
Sink or swim

Swim

(intransitive) To be overflowed or drenched.

Swim

(transitive) To immerse in water to make the lighter parts float.
To swim wheat in order to select seed

Swim

To test (a suspected witch) by throwing into a river; those who floated rather than sinking were deemed to be witches.

Swim

(intransitive) To glide along with a waving motion.

Swim

(intransitive) To be dizzy or vertiginous; have a giddy sensation; to have, or appear to have, a whirling motion.
My head was swimming after drinking two bottles of cheap wine.

Swim

An act or instance of swimming.
I'm going for a swim.

Swim

The sound, or air bladder, of a fish.

Swim

(UK) A part of a stream much frequented by fish.

Swim

A dance move of the 1960s in which the arms are moved in a freestyle swimming manner.

Swim

A dizziness; swoon.

Swim

Abbreviation of someone who isn't meused as a way to avoid self-designation or self-incrimination, especially in online drug forums

Swim

To be supported by water or other fluid; not to sink; to float; as, any substance will swim, whose specific gravity is less than that of the fluid in which it is immersed.

Swim

To move progressively in water by means of strokes with the hands and feet, or the fins or the tail.
Leap in with me into this angry flood,And swim to yonder point.

Swim

To be overflowed or drenched.
Sudden the ditches swell, the meadows swim.

Swim

Fig.: To be as if borne or floating in a fluid.
[They] now swim in joy.

Swim

To be filled with swimming animals.
[Streams] that swim full of small fishes.

Swim

To pass or move over or on by swimming; as, to swim a stream.
Sometimes he thought to swim the stormy main.

Swim

To cause or compel to swim; to make to float; as, to swim a horse across a river.

Swim

To immerse in water that the lighter parts may float; as, to swim wheat in order to select seed.

Swim

To be dizzy; to have an unsteady or reeling sensation; as, the head swims.

Swim

The act of swimming; a gliding motion, like that of one swimming.

Swim

The sound, or air bladder, of a fish.

Swim

A part of a stream much frequented by fish.

Swim

The act of swimming

Swim

Travel through water;
We had to swim for 20 minutes to reach the shore
A big fish was swimming in the tank

Swim

Be afloat; stay on a liquid surface; not sink

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