| NOUN | act | swimming, swim | the act of swimming |
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| ADJECTIVE | all | swimming, liquid | filled or brimming with tears |
| all | swimming, naiant | applied to a fish depicted horizontally |
| Sounds | swih'mihng | |
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| Rhymes | abducting ... zoning: 2044 rhymes with ihng... | |
| Meaning | Filled or brimming with tears. | |
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| Example | "swimming eyes" | |
| Synonym | liquid | |
| Broader | tearful | Filled with or marked by tears |
| Spanish | acuoso, lloricoso | |
| Meaning | applied to a fish depicted horizontally. | |
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| Synonym | naiant | |
| Category | heraldry | The study and classification of armorial bearings and the tracing of genealogies |
| Broader | horizontal | parallel to or in the plane of the horizon or a base line |
| Meaning | The act of swimming. | |
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| Example | "it was the swimming they enjoyed most": "they took a short swim in the pool" | |
| Synonym | swim | |
| Narrower | bathe | The act of swimming |
| dip, plunge | A brief swim in water | |
| dive, diving | A headlong plunge into water | |
| floating, natation | The act of someone who floats on the water | |
| skin diving, skin-dive | Underwater swimming without any more breathing equipment than a snorkel | |
| skinny-dip | A naked swim | |
| Broader | water sport, aquatics | sports that involve bodies of water |
| Spanish | natación | |
| Catalan | natació | |
| Verbs | swim | travel through water |
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