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swimming with sharks

swimming with sharks is the present participle and gerund of swim with sharks.

Meaning of swim with sharks

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic) To operate among dangerous people.

Questions about swimming with sharks

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

Words near swimming with sharks in the dictionary

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

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