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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. David Marsh:

    No doubt in my mind that somebody that's been tested twice positive during this window of time, I don't see how would be allowed to swim in the Games.

  2. Michele Hlavsa:

    To protect yourself, it's about not swallowing the water you swim in, and to protect others don't swim if you have diarrhea.

  3. Susan Clayton:

    Feeling connected to people and knowing Janet Swim can count on them matters.

  4. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

    Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air…

  5. Thomas B. Macaulay:

    The maxim that people should not have a right till they are ready to exercise it properly, is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

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