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Antonyms for SWIM
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  1. swimming, swimverb

    the act of swimming

    "it was the swimming they enjoyed most": "they took a short swim in the pool"

    Synonyms:
    swimming, swim

  2. swimverb

    travel through water

    "We had to swim for 20 minutes to reach the shore"; "a big fish was swimming in the tank"

    Synonyms:
    drown, float

  3. float, swimverb

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

    Synonyms:
    be adrift, drift, blow, drown, float, swim

  4. swimverb

    be dizzy or giddy

    "my brain is swimming after the bottle of champagne"

    Synonyms:
    drown, float

  5. swim, drownverb

    be covered with or submerged in a liquid

    "the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy"

    Synonyms:
    overwhelm, drown, submerge, float, swim

  6. swimverb

    move as if gliding through water

    "this snake swims through the soil where it lives"

    Synonyms:
    drown, float

How to use SWIM in a sentence?

  1. Charles Haughey:

    This is crazy and surreal, the 200 free is always my main event, so the 100 is more like a bonus for me. My goal is just to go in and have fun and swim a best time and I did that.

  2. Mark Weiss:

    The kids would do their filming during the day and at night they would all swim in the hotel pool together, it was like they were all best friends.

  3. Lyndon B. Johnson:

    If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read President Can't Swim.

  4. Ken Cuccinelli:

    We've been being invaded for a long time, and so the border states clearly qualify here to utilize this power State Legislators for Legal Immigration. And what's interesting is State Legislators for Legal Immigration don't need anyone's permission, state Legislators for Legal Immigration can do State Legislators for Legal Immigration State Legislators for Legal Immigration. And because State Legislators for Legal Immigration're acting under war powers, there's no due process. State Legislators for Legal Immigration can literally just line State Legislators for Legal Immigration National Guard up with, presumably with riot gear like State Legislators for Legal Immigration would if State Legislators for Legal Immigration had a civil disturbance, and turn people back at the border. Literally, you don't have to keep State Legislators for Legal Immigration, no catch and release, no nothing. You just point State Legislators for Legal Immigration back across the river and let State Legislators for Legal Immigration swim for State Legislators for Legal Immigration.

  5. David Smith:

    In this business you either sink or swim or you don't.

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