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
“I wish I hadn’t cried so much!” said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out.
Just then she heard something splashing about in the pool a little way off, and she swam nearer to make out what it was: at first she thought it must be a walrus or hippopotamus, but then she remembered how small she was now, and she soon made out that it was only a mouse that had slipped in like herself.
I am very tired of swimming about here, O Mouse!” (Alice thought this must be the right way of speaking to a mouse: she had never done such a thing before, but she remembered having seen in her brother’s Latin Grammar, “A mouse—of a mouse—to a mouse—a mouse—O mouse!”) The Mouse looked at her rather inquisitively, and seemed to her to wink with one of its little eyes, but it said nothing.
She is such a dear quiet thing,” Alice went on, half to herself, as she swam lazily about in the pool, “and she sits purring so nicely by the fire, licking her paws and washing her face—and she is such a nice soft thing to nurse—and she’s such a capital one for catching mice—oh, I beg your pardon!” cried Alice again, for this time the Mouse was bristling all over, and she felt certain it must be really offended.
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