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   Swam (?), imp. of Swim.
   
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   Swim (?), v. i. [imp. Swam (?) or Swum (); p. p. Swum; p. pr. & vb. n. Swimming.] [AS. swimman; akin to D. zwemmen, OHG. swimman, G. schwimmen, Icel. svimma, Dan. swömme, Sw. simma.  Cf. Sound an air bladder, a strait.]
   1. To be supported by water or other fluid; not to sink; to float; as, “any substance will swim, whose specific gravity is less than that of the fluid in which it is immersed”.
   
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   2. To move progressively in water by means of strokes with the hands and feet, or the fins or the tail.
   
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   Leap in with me into this angry flood,
   
   And swim to yonder point. Shak.
   
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   3. To be overflowed or drenched.  Ps. vi. 6.
   
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   Sudden the ditches swell, the meadows swim. Thomson.
   
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   4. Fig.: To be as if borne or floating in a fluid.
   
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   [They] now swim in joy. Milton.
   
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   5. To be filled with swimming animals. [Obs.]
   
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   [Streams] that swim full of small fishes. Chaucer.
   
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