swim

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1. 1

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

   We were now all upon a Level, as to our travelling; being unshipp’d, for our Bark would swim no farther, and she was too heavy to carry on our Backs […]

   He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.

   Meanwhile, NR faced an unexpected challenge when a night watchman spotted several Koi Carp swimming in floodwater close to the railway, after they had escaped from a nearby private residence. Wilson says the owner was eventually traced, and the fish were safely returned "after enjoying swimming around in a 3,000-acre lake".

2. 2

   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

3. 3

   To move around freely because of excess space.

   A fam'd Sur-tout he wears, which once was blue, / And his foot swims in a capacious shoe.

4. 4

   To traverse (a specific body of water, or a specific distance) by swimming; or, to use 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.

   Sometimes he thought to swim the stormy main.

5. 5

   To cause to swim.

   to swim a horse across a river

   Half of the guinea pigs were swum daily.

6. 6

   archaïqueTo float.

   sink or swim

   There's oil swimming on the water.

   Why, now, blow wind, swell billow, and swim bark! The storm is up and all is on the hazard.

   And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither; and the iron did swim.

7. 7

   To be overflowed or drenched.

   I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.

   Sudden, the ditches ſwell; the meadows ſwim.

8. 8

   To immerse in water to make the lighter parts float.

   to swim wheat in order to select seed

9. 9

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

10. 10

    To glide along with a waving motion.

11. 11

    To have a great quantity of something.

    You should be swimming in money after this job.

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1. 1

   An act or instance of swimming.

   I'm going for a swim.

   She had a quick swim in the bay.

2. 2

   The sound, or air bladder, of a fish.

3. 3

   A part of a stream much frequented by fish.

4. 4

   A dance or dance move of the 1960s in which the arms are moved in imitation of various swimming strokes, such as freestyle, breaststroke, etc.

   C'mon everybody! C'mon in! Bobby's goin' to show you how to do the swim.

5. 5

   figuréThe flow of events; being in the swim of things.

   With the road ahead now clear, Mann […] is plunging back into the swim of business in a hurry.

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   A dizziness; swoon.

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   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.

   She snatched the letter from Sir Jasper, who started as her icy hand touched his: she attempted to read the passage herself, but the letters seemed to swim before her gaze: they turned to fire; the paper dropped from her grasp; a thick mist appeared to gather over the room; she gave a convulsive shudder, and dropped on the floor perfectly insensible.

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   Variante de someone who isn't meAbbreviation of someone who isn't me, used as a way to avoid self-designation or self-incrimination, especially in online drug forums.

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