Definitions for swum

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Spelling: [swuhm]

IPA: /swʌm/

Swum is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 24 anagrams from letters in swum (msuw).

Definitions for swum

noun

1. an act, instance, or period of swimming.
2. a motion as of swimming; a smooth, gliding movement.

verb

1. past participle of swim.

Idioms

1. in the swim, alert to or actively engaged in events; in the thick of things:

verb (used with object)

1. to move along in or cross (a body of water) by swimming:
2. to perform (a particular stroke) in swimming:
3. to cause to swim or float, as on a stream.
4. to furnish with sufficient water to swim or float.

verb (used without object)

1. to move in water by movements of the limbs, fins, tail, etc.
2. to float on the surface of water or some other liquid.
3. to move, rest, or be suspended in air as if swimming in water.
4. to move, glide, or go smoothly over a surface.
5. to be immersed or steeped in or overflowing or flooded with a liquid:
6. to be dizzy or giddy; seem to whirl:

Origin of swum

before 900; Middle English swimmen, Old English swimman; cognate with Dutch zwemmen, German schwimmen, Old Norse svimma

Examples for swum

Had it been a matter of my life only, I would have swum to meet him.

The poor man had not swum so far for many years, and was nearly spent.

There came a moment when it seemed to him that he must have swum beyond the confines of life.

Spokes was there, for Spokes had swum round the Black Buoy, and become a “shark.”

How many times, surrounded by his friends, he had swum in the moonlight.

She brought them up the river; and then they were dumped into the water, and swum ashore.

He swum ashore to the beach and, inside of a week, he'd shipped aboard the Emily.

He had learnt their sports and games; wrestled and swum and hunted with them.

Old Whetstone was as wet at the end of ten minutes as if he had swum a river.

Had I swum another yard, I should have passed the boat, and missed her altogether!