Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Swimming; overflowing; afloat.
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Examples
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Paris was aswim with non-stop demonstrations until the government acquiesced to the demands of the students, and was allowed to stand.
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Paris was aswim with non-stop demonstrations until the government acquiesced to the demands of the students, and was allowed to stand.
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He was aswim in darkness, a thick, torpid presence that pressed up against him, obstructing sight and sound.
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He was aswim in darkness, a thick, torpid presence that pressed up against him, obstructing sight and sound.
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He felt a measure of detachment from the matters at hand, his eyes slightly aswim in the agreeable yield of a long liquid lunch.
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He felt a measure of detachment from the matters at hand, his eyes slightly aswim in the agreeable yield of a long liquid lunch.
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He felt a measure of detachment from the matters at hand, his eyes slightly aswim in the agreeable yield of a long liquid lunch.
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When a fish or shellfish is served in a generous quantity of its cooking liquid, however supplemented with other ingredients, the French fittingly call it a preparation à la nage, or “aswim.”
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When a fish or shellfish is served in a generous quantity of its cooking liquid, however supplemented with other ingredients, the French fittingly call it a preparation à la nage, or “aswim.”
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Instead he looked to our own Greek diet — our eggplant aswim in tomato sauce, our cucumber dressings and fish-egg spreads, our pilafi, raisins, and figs — as potential curatives, as life-giving, artery-cleansing, skin-smoothing wonder drugs.
chained_bear commented on the word aswim
"'...the Doctor himself says it is a trifle, and I never felt it at the time—a pike-thrust, a glancing pike-thrust. We suffered very little. But God's my life, how they did maul one another, Spartan and Azul; as bloody a little engagement as ever I saw—the gundecks of both were aswim with blood. Aswim.'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Letter of Marque, 106
February 29, 2008
mollusque commented on the word aswim
Instead he looked at our own Greek diet—our eggplant aswim in tomato sauce, our cucumber dressings and fish-egg spreads, our pilafi, raisins, and figs—as potential curatives, as life-giving, artery-cleansing, skin-smoothing wonder drugs.
—Jeffrey Eugenides, 2002, Middlesex, p. 287
August 17, 2008