to swim
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3.0
- verb
- /swɪm/
:
estar inundado de
- But we're swimming in debt here.
This is, it's ridiculous what we are swimming in.
- This is, it's ridiculous what we are swimming in.
Examples
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Once we roll out a national tour, we're gonna be swimming in cash.
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"The potatoes were swimming in butter; the salad was drenched in dressing.
Fiction book (2000) -
We're going to be swimming in it.
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The men swim in the tub all day.
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Do you want that mountain of fries or that swimming pool of alcohol?
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Darling, when I sell one of my songs, you'll be swimming in champagne.
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Even after Kamoj contracted the membranes in her nose, she was swimming in a sea of smells.
Fiction book (1999) -
[narrator]Small family farming operations are often swimming in debt while agribusiness conglomerates are thriving.
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The dreadful little creatures started life as microfilariae, microscopic larvae swimming in a dog's bloodstream.
Fiction book (1999) -
During summer vacations, the children love to swim in the lake every afternoon.
Synonyms
258
1.0
To go down below the surface of water and become underwater
42
3.9
To put something completely under water or another liquid
31
1.0
Cover completely with liquid, for example food in sauce
Idioms
Phrasal Verbs
- Informal
4
5.3
To move against a river current or to keep trying when many people are against you
Compounds
- Specialized
1
5.0
An air sac in many fish that helps them stay at a certain depth in water
How Wet
Surface Forms
Etymology
Swim is often used in a picture way to mean being full of liquid; to say food is 'swimming' in sauce comes from the idea of being surrounded by so much liquid it looks like it could move in it, so here swim means 'to be covered by a lot of liquid'.