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swim

English

  1. 🔊 the act of swimming
    “it was the swimming they enjoyed most”
  2. 🔊 move as if gliding through water
    “this snake swims through the soil where it lives”
  3. 🔊 travel through water
    “We had to swim for 20 minutes to reach the shore”
  4. 🔊 be covered with or submerged in a liquid
    “the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy”
  5. 🔊 be dizzy or giddy
    “my brain is swimming after the bottle of champagne”
  6. 🔊 be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom

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