Definitions
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
01“Cross a pool”4 letters
02“Move through a pool”4 letters
03“Move through water”4 letters
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