aswim
/əˈswɪm/
aswim adjective: swimming or immersed (in or with something).
Adjective
aswim
- Swimming or immersed (in or with something).
- The mules […] were alternately aswim and walking, the length of our team constituting our greatest safety; for when the wheel mules would be out of their depth, the lead and middle ones might not be over knee-deep, and vice versâ,1851, William Kelly, chapter 8, in An Excursion to California,, volume 1, London: Chapman and Hall, page 138
- […] his mind was aswim with imagined conspiracies;1988, Peter Carey, chapter 30, in Oscar and Lucinda, London: Faber and Faber, page 120
- Brimming with liquid.
- eyes aswim with tears
Examples of aswim in a sentence
- […] he looked to our own Greek diet—our eggplant aswim in tomato sauce, our cucumber dressings and fish-egg spreads […]2002, Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex, New York: Picador, Book 3, p. 287:
- By this generous, almost communistic imagery, we are all aswim in the same great gene pool, or fishers from the river of human perpetuity.2014, Natalie Angier, Woman: An Intimate Geography (Revised and Updated):
Origin of aswim
From a- + swim.
Words that rhyme with aswim
Questions about aswim
- What does aswim mean?
- Aswim means swimming or immersed (in or with something).
- How do you use aswim in a sentence?
- […] he looked to our own Greek diet—our eggplant aswim in tomato sauce, our cucumber dressings and fish-egg spreads […]
- What part of speech is aswim?
- Aswim is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce aswim?
- Aswim is pronounced /əˈswɪm/.
Words near aswim in the dictionary
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