swam Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb travel through water
    swim.
    • We had to swim for 20 minutes to reach the shore
    • a big fish was swimming in the tank
  2. verb be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom
    swim; float.
  3. verb be dizzy or giddy
    swim.
    • my brain is swimming after the bottle of champagne
  4. verb be covered with or submerged in a liquid
    swim; drown.
    • the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy
  5. verb move as if gliding through water
    swim.
    • this snake swims through the soil where it lives

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Swam
Definitions
  1. imp. of Swim.

Webster 1913