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outswimming

outswimming is the present participle and gerund 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 outswimming

What is outswimming the present participle and gerund of?
Outswimming is the present participle and gerund of outswim.

Words near outswimming in the dictionary

  1. outswift
  2. outswifted
  3. outswifting
  4. outswifts
  5. outswim
  6. outswimming
  7. outswims
  8. outswindle
  9. outswindled
  10. outswindles
  11. outswindling

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