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Swim

To be supported by water or other fluid; not to sink; to float; as, any substance will swim, whose specific gravity is less than that of the fluid in which it is immersed.

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Verb group 2

Float 84% connected

Anything which floats or rests on the surface of a fluid, as to sustain weight, or to indicate the height of the surface, or mark the place of, somet…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Float 84% connected

Anything which floats or rests on the surface of a fluid, as to sustain weight, or to indicate the height of the surface, or mark the place of, somet…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Narrower term 7

Bathe 76% connected

To wash by immersion, as in a bath; to subject to a bath.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Dip 76% connected

To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Dive 76% connected

To plunge into water head foremost; to thrust the body under, or deeply into, water or other fluid.

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Diving 76% connected

of Dive

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Floating 76% connected

of Float

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Natation 76% connected

The act of floating on the water; swimming.

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Plunge 76% connected

To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse; to cause to penetrate or enter quickly and forcibly; to thrust; as, to pl…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Manner of action 7

Bathe 76% connected

To wash by immersion, as in a bath; to subject to a bath.

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Buoy 76% connected

A float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the water, as an anchor, sh…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Crawl 76% connected

To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Dive 76% connected

To plunge into water head foremost; to thrust the body under, or deeply into, water or other fluid.

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Fin 76% connected

To carve or cut up, as a chub.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Paddle 76% connected

To use the hands or fingers in toying; to make caressing strokes.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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School 76% connected

A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish.

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Broader term 5

Be 76% connected

To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Exist 76% connected

To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Go 76% connected

Gone.

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Move 76% connected

To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Travel 76% connected

To labor; to travail.

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Derivationally related 6

Bather 74% connected

One who bathes.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Bather 74% connected

One who bathes.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Swimmer 74% connected

One who swims.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Swimmer 74% connected

One who swims.

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Synonym 3

Drown 92% connected

To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Float 92% connected

Anything which floats or rests on the surface of a fluid, as to sustain weight, or to indicate the height of the surface, or mark the place of, somet…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Swimming 92% connected

of Swim

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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