upswim

verb

upswim

verb

Etymology From up- + swim.

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Ambitransitive, Poetic 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.1917, Thomas Hardy, An Anniversary:

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