Usually means: Move through water using limbs.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. swim: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. swim, swim: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. swim: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. swim: Collins English Dictionary
  5. swim: Vocabulary.com
  6. Swim, swim: Wordnik
  7. swim: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. SWIM, Swim, swim: Wiktionary
  9. swim: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. swim: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. swim: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. SWIM: Dictionary.com
  13. swim (n.), swim (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. swim: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Swim (Caribou album), Swim (Emily's Army EP), Swim (Feeder EP), Swim (album), Swim (record label), Swim (song), Swim: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Swim: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. swim: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. swim: Rhymezone
  19. swim: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. swim: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. SWIM: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Swim: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. swim: Free Dictionary
  24. swim: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Swim, swim: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  26. swim: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. swim: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. SWIM: Netlingo
  2. SWIM: CCI Computer
  3. swim: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. swim: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. SWIM: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. swim: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. swim, swim: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. S.W.I.M: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means.
verb:  (intransitive) To become immersed in, or as if in, or flooded with, or as if with, a liquid
verb:  (intransitive) To move around freely because of excess space.
verb:  (transitive) To traverse (a specific body of water, or a specific distance) by swimming; or, to use a specific swimming stroke; or, to compete in a specific swimming event.
verb:  (transitive, uncommon) To cause to swim.
verb:  (intransitive, archaic) To float.
verb:  (intransitive) To be overflowed or drenched.
verb:  (transitive) To immerse in water to make the lighter parts float.
verb:  (transitive, historical) To test (a suspected witch) by throwing into a river; those who floated rather than sinking were deemed to be witches.
verb:  (intransitive) To glide along with a waving motion.
noun:  An act or instance of swimming.
noun:  The sound, or air bladder, of a fish.
noun:  (UK) A part of a stream much frequented by fish.
noun:  A dance or dance move of the 1960s in which the arms are moved in imitation of various swimming strokes, such as freestyle, breaststroke, etc.
noun:  (figurative) The flow of events; being in the swim of things.
noun:  A dizziness; swoon.
verb:  (intransitive) To be dizzy or vertiginous; have a giddy sensation; to have, or appear to have, a whirling motion.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of someone who isn't me. used as a way to avoid self-designation or self-incrimination, especially in online drug forums

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