aswim

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/əˈswɪm/

adjective

Swimming or immersed (in or with something).

“eyes aswim with tears”

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Meanings

adjective
  1. Swimming or immersed (in or with something).

    […] his mind was aswim with imagined conspiracies;

    1988, Peter Carey, chapter 30, in Oscar and Lucinda, London: Faber and Faber, page 120
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    The mules […] were alternately aswim and walking, the length of our team constituting our greatest safety; for when the wheel mules would be out of their depth, the lead and middle ones might not be over knee-deep, and vice versâ,

    1851, William Kelly, chapter 8, in An Excursion to California,, volume 1, London: Chapman and Hall, page 138

    […] he looked to our own Greek diet—our eggplant aswim in tomato sauce, our cucumber dressings and fish-egg spreads […]

    2002, Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex, New York: Picador, Book 3, p. 287

    By this generous, almost communistic imagery, we are all aswim in the same great gene pool, or fishers from the river of human perpetuity. If my line comes up empty, perhaps you will share your catch with me.

    2014, Natalie Angier, Woman: An Intimate Geography (Revised and Updated)
  2. Brimming with liquid.

    eyes aswim with tears

Origin

From a- + swim.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with aswim

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Anagrams

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APA

aswim. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/aswim

MLA

“aswim.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/aswim. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “aswim,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/aswim.

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