Swim

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  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To move through or on top of water by moving the limbs, fins, or tail or by undulating the body.
  • intransitive verb. To play or relax in water.
  • intransitive verb. To float on water or another liquid.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To be covered or flooded with a liquid.
  • intransitive verb. To possess a superfluity; abound.
  • intransitive verb. To experience a floating or giddy sensation; be dizzy.
  • intransitive verb. To appear to float or spin slowly.
  • intransitive verb. To move through or across (a body of water or a distance) by swimming.
  • intransitive verb. To execute (a particular stroke) in swimming.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The act of swimming.
  • noun. A distance covered by or period of time spent swimming.
  • noun. An area, as of a river, abounding in fish.
  • adjective. Of, relating to, or used for swimming.
  • idiom. (in the swim) Active in the general current of affairs.
  • idiom. (swim against the stream) To move counter to a prevailing trend.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of swimming; period or extent of swimming: as, to take a swim.
  • noun. A smooth swaying gliding motion.
  • noun. The sound or swimming-bladder of a fish.
  • noun. A part of a stream, or other piece of water, deep and free from rocks and other obstructions, and much frequented by fish.
  • noun. A dizziness; swoon.
  • To float on or in water or other fluid.
  • To move on or in water by natural means of locomotion, as an animal, many of which can so move, though the water be not their natural element, and swimming not their habit.
  • Hence, to move or be propelled on or through water by any means.
  • To glide with a smooth motion, literally or figuratively.
  • To be flooded; be overflowed or drenched.
  • To overflow; abound; have abundance.
  • To pass or cross by swimming; move on or in by swimming: as, to swim a stream.
  • To immerse in water, that the lighter parts may swim: as, to swim wheat for seed.
  • To cause to swim or float: as, to swim a horse across a river.
  • To furnish with sufficient depth of water to swim in.
  • To be dizzy or vertiginous; have giddiness; have a sensation as if the head were turning round; also, to have, or appear to have, a whirling motion: as, everything swam before his eyes.
  • In cricket, to curve in the air: said of the ball.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To pass or move over or on by swimming.
  • transitive verb. To cause or compel to swim; to make to float.
  • transitive verb. To immerse in water that the lighter parts may float.
  • intransitive verb. To be dizzy; to have an unsteady or reeling sensation.
  • intransitive verb. To be supported by water or other fluid; not to sink; to float.
  • intransitive verb. To move progressively in water by means of strokes with the hands and feet, or the fins or the tail.
  • intransitive verb. To be overflowed or drenched.
  • intransitive verb. Fig.: To be as if borne or floating in a fluid.
  • intransitive verb. To be filled with swimming animals.
  • noun. The act of swimming; a gliding motion, like that of one swimming.
  • noun. The sound, or air bladder, of a fish.
  • noun. A part of a stream much frequented by fish.
  • noun. an air bladder of a fish.
  • noun. to be in a favored position; to be associated with others in active affairs.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To float.
  • Word Usage
    ""Water," said Tom; "swim -- _swim_ across" (he pointed southward and made the motions of swimming)."
    Form
    in the swim  swam  swimming  swum  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    be  go  locomote  move  travel  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Grim  Grimm  Him  Im  Jim  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    athletic  bathe  boating  climb  dip  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    variant
    swam  swimming  swum  
    verb-form
    swam  swimming  swims  swum