upswim

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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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."

From up- + swim.

upswims (present, singular) upswimming (participle, present) upswam (past) upswum (participle, past)

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