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swim
What does swim mean?
swim (verb): to move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use swim in a sentence?
- A big fish was swimming in the tank. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce swim?
/swɪm/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does swim come from?
From Middle English swymmen, from Old English swimman (“to swim, float”) (class III strong verb; past tense swamm, past participle geswummen), from Proto-West Germanic *swimman, from Proto-Germanic *swimmaną (“to swim”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Words related to swim
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “swim” mean?
to determine the value or worth of (something), particularly as a person appointed for this purpose
Not quite: that's what appraise means.
to allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned
Not quite: that's what lend means.
to move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means
Right! That's what “swim” means.
to discredit, or expose to ridicule the falsehood or the exaggerated claims of something; to refute
Not quite: that's what debunk means.
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