swim
verb C2- To be dizzy or vertiginous; have a giddy sensation; to have, or appear to have, a whirling motion. · My head was swimming after drinking two bottles of cheap wine.
He/she/it swims · Past swam · Past participle swum · -ing form swimming
Verb forms
- Base form
- swim
- He/she/it
- swims
- Past
- swam
- Past participle
- swum
- -ing form
- swimming
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
From the library
Where _can_ I have dropped them, I wonder?” Alice guessed in a moment that it was looking for the fan and the pair of white kid gloves, and she very good-naturedly began hunting about for them, but they were nowhere to be seen—everything seemed to have changed since her swim in the pool, and the great hall, with the glass table and the little door, had vanished completely.
People are found every day in the Seine, having thrown themselves in, or having been drowned from not knowing how to swim.”
But said I could not swim.
“—_said I could not swim_—” you can’t swim, can you?” he added, turning to the Knave.
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