swim
/swɪm/ verbe A1En français : nager
- To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means.
- To become immersed in, or as if in, or flooded with, or as if with, a liquid. · swimming in self-pity· a bare few bits of meat swimming in watery sauce
- To move around freely because of excess space.
- 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. · For exercise, we like to swim laps around the pool.· I want to swim the 200-yard breaststroke in the finals.
- To cause to swim. · to swim a horse across a river· Half of the guinea pigs were swum daily.
- To be overflowed or drenched.
- To immerse in water to make the lighter parts float. · to swim wheat in order to select seed
- To test (a suspected witch) by throwing into a river; those who floated rather than sinking were deemed to be witches.
Pluriel swim · He/she/it swims · Prétérit swam · Participe passé swum · Forme en -ing swimming
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Dans la bibliothèque
The boy could climb almost as well as he could swim, and swim almost as well as he could run.
When he felt dirty or hot he swam in the forest pools; and when he wanted honey (Baloo told him that honey and nuts were just as pleasant to eat as raw meat) he climbed up for it, and that Bagheera showed him how to do.
People are found every day in the Seine, having thrown themselves in, or having been drowned from not knowing how to swim.”
One thought in particular tormented him: namely, that during his journey hither he had sat so still, whereas he might, a dozen times, have plunged into the sea, and, thanks to his powers of swimming, for which he was famous, have gained the shore, concealed himself until the arrival of a Genoese or Spanish vessel, escaped to Spain or Italy, where Mercédès and his father could have joined him.
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