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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.]
   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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   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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   To be overflowed or drenched.
   Ps. vi. 6.
   
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   Sudden the ditches swell, the meadows swim.
   Thomson.
   
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   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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   To be filled with swimming animals. [Obs.]
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   [Streams] that swim full of small fishes.
   Chaucer.
   
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