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outswam

outswam is the simple past of outswim.

Meaning of outswim

Verb

outswim (third-person singular simple present outswims, present participle outswimming, simple past outswam, past participle outswum)

  1. (transitive) To swim faster, farther or better than.
    • Last July in Berkeley, California, a 38-year-old man under the influence of alcohol drowned after a 50-year-old man offered to give him his car if the younger man could outswim him in San Francisco Bay....That same month a 45-year-old man drowned off Cabo San Lucas, at the southern tip of Baja...2002 January 11, Chuck Shepherd, “News of the Weird”, in Chicago Reader

Questions about outswam

What is outswam the simple past of?
Outswam is the simple past of outswim.

Words near outswam in the dictionary

  1. outsurviving
  2. outswagger
  3. outswaggered
  4. outswaggering
  5. outswaggers
  6. outswam
  7. outswap
  8. outswapped
  9. outswapping
  10. outswaps
  11. outswarm

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