swim

swim is a 4-letter English word with 18 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 18 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. 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.
2. intransitive verb. To move progressively in water by means of strokes with the hands and feet, or the fins or the tail.
3. intransitive verb. To be overflowed or drenched.
4. intransitive verb. Fig.: To be as if borne or floating in a fluid.
5. intransitive verb. To be filled with swimming animals.
6. transitive verb. To pass or move over or on by swimming; as, to swim a stream.
7. transitive verb. To cause or compel to swim; to make to float; as, to swim a horse across a river.
8. transitive verb. To immerse in water that the lighter parts may float; as, to swim wheat in order to select seed.
9. noun. The act of swimming; a gliding motion, like that of one swimming.
10. noun. The sound, or air bladder, of a fish.
11. noun. A part of a stream much frequented by fish.
12. intransitive verb. To be dizzy; to have an unsteady or reeling sensation; as, the head swims.
13. noun. the act of swimming: "they took a short swim in the pool"

    "it was the swimming they enjoyed most"

    Synonyms: swimming

14. verb. be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom

    Synonyms: float

15. verb. move as if gliding through water

    "this snake swims through the soil where it lives"

16. verb. travel through water

    "We had to swim for 20 minutes to reach the shore"

    "a big fish was swimming in the tank"

17. verb. be covered with or submerged in a liquid

    "the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy"

    Synonyms: drown

18. verb. be dizzy or giddy

    "my brain is swimming after the bottle of champagne"

Synonyms

swimming, float, drown

Common word forms

swims, swimmer, swimming

Words from these letters

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