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swimming the Thames

swimming the Thames is the present participle and gerund of swim the Thames.

Meaning of swim the Thames

Verb

swim the Thames (third-person singular simple present swims the Thames, present participle swimming the Thames, simple past swam the Thames, past participle swum the Thames)

  1. (intransitive) To convert to Anglicanism.
    • […] Philip Jenkins, himself an ex-Catholic who swam the Thames, speculates that the rates of decline in his adopted Church are so steep that the last American Episcopalian may have been born.2019 March 11, Filip Mazurczak, “A Unique Credo and Affirmation of Faith by a Distinctive Mind”, in The Catholic World Report, Ignatius Press, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2022
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see swim, the, Thames.

Questions about swimming the Thames

What is swimming the Thames the present participle and gerund of?
Swimming the Thames is the present participle and gerund of swim the Thames.

Words near swimming the Thames in the dictionary

  1. swimming pool acid
  2. swimming pools
  3. swimming shorts
  4. swimming stone
  5. swimming stones
  6. swimming the Thames
  7. swimming the Tiber
  8. swimming trunks
  9. swimming upstream
  10. swimming with sharks
  11. swimming-pool

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