Aswim vs. Swim

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.
Swim
To be covered or flooded with a liquid
Chicken swimming in gravy.
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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.
Swim
To execute (a particular stroke) in swimming.
Swim
The act of swimming
Went for a swim before lunch.
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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.
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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