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Word entry · 4 letters

swim

Best crossword clue

"Cross a pool"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /swɪm/Part of speech noun, verbSorted imswStarts with SEnds with M3 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the act of swimming

Word origin

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”), from Proto-Indo-European *swem(bʰ)- (“to be unsteady, move, swim”).

Used in a sentence

  • 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 […]
  • swimming in self-pity
  • a bare few bits of meat swimming in watery sauce

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Used as a crossword answer3 curated clues

01Cross a pool4 letters
02Move through a pool4 letters
03Move through water4 letters

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