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Meaning of swim

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  swim
      n 1: the act of swimming; "it was the swimming they enjoyed
           most": "they took a short swim in the pool" [syn:
           {swimming}, {swim}]
      v 1: travel through water; "We had to swim for 20 minutes to
           reach the shore"; "a big fish was swimming in the tank"
      2: be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to
         the bottom [syn: {float}, {swim}] [ant: {go down}, {go
         under}, {settle}, {sink}]
      3: be dizzy or giddy; "my brain is swimming after the bottle of
         champagne"
      4: be covered with or submerged in a liquid; "the meat was
         swimming in a fatty gravy" [syn: {swim}, {drown}]
      5: move as if gliding through water; "this snake swims through
         the soil where it lives"

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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