swim
/swɪm/noun, verb1 syllable
Swim means: be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom.
Synonyms for swim3
What does swim mean?6
verb
1
be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom
2
be covered with or submerged in a liquid“the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy”
3
travel through water“We had to swim for 20 minutes to reach the shore”
4
be dizzy or giddy“my brain is swimming after the bottle of champagne”
5
move as if gliding through water“this snake swims through the soil where it lives”
noun
1
the act of swimming“it was the swimming they enjoyed most”
Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What rhymes with swim?14
Swim in a sentence
- Try as we may, we cannot swim to the rock.unknown
- With the water so cold, we decided not to swim.CK
- When he was here, he would swim in the morning.CK
- The water temperature's still low so you're not going to swim, are you?fcbond
- It's hot today, so we can take a swim in the sea.blay_paul
- With the bridge destroyed, there was nothing to do but swim.LittleBoy
- You are not able to swim, are you?saasmath
- My father can swim, but my mother can't.fanty
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Forms of swim
as a noun
- plural
- swims
as a verb
- past tense
- swam
- past participle
- swum
- present participle
- swimming
- third-person singular
- swims