upswim

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English

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Etymology

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From up- +‎ swim.

Verb

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

  1. (poetic, transitive, intransitive) To swim up or upward.
    • 1917, Thomas Hardy, An Anniversary:
      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.