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swim

A1 verb

swim /swɪm/ nghĩa là bơi, tắm

Các nghĩa

  1. bơi · tắm

    To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means.

    intransitive

    Can you swim?

    You can swim, can't you?

    You can't swim, can you?

  2. chóng mặt, choáng váng

    To become immersed in, or as if in, or flooded with, or as if with, a liquid.

    intransitive

    swimming in self-pity

    a bare few bits of meat swimming in watery sauce

  3. To move around freely because of excess space.

    intransitive

    A fam'd Sur-tout he wears, which once was blue, / And his foot swims in a capacious shoe.

  4. 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.

    transitive

    For exercise, we like to swim laps around the pool.

    I want to swim the 200-yard breaststroke in the finals.

    Sometimes he thought to swim the stormy main.

  5. To cause to swim.

    transitive · uncommon

    to swim a horse across a river

    Half of the guinea pigs were swum daily.

  6. To be overflowed or drenched.

    intransitive

    I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.

    Sudden, the ditches ſwell; the meadows ſwim.

+ 2 nghĩa khác

  1. To immerse in water to make the lighter parts float.

    transitive

    to swim wheat in order to select seed

  2. To glide along with a waving motion.

    intransitive

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