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upswims

upswims is the third-person singular simple present indicative of upswim.

Meaning of upswim

Verb

upswim (third-person singular simple present upswims, present participle upswimming, simple past upswam, past participle upswum)

  1. (ambitransitive, poetic) To swim up or upward.
    • It was at the very date to which we have come, / In the month of the matching name, / When, at a like minute, the sun had upswum, / Its couch-time at night being the same.1917, Thomas Hardy, An Anniversary

Questions about upswims

What is upswims the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Upswims is the third-person singular simple present indicative of upswim.

Words near upswims in the dictionary

  1. upswellings
  2. upswells
  3. upswept
  4. upswim
  5. upswimming
  6. upswims
  7. upswing
  8. upswinging
  9. upswings
  10. upswollen
  11. upswum

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