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Swam vs Ran - What's the difference?

swam | ran |

As verbs the difference between swam and ran

is that swam is simple past of swim while ran is simple past of run.

As a noun ran is

yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch.

As a proper noun RAN is

Royal Australian Navy.

swam

English

Verb

(head)
  • (swim)

    • Anagrams

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    ran

    English

    Etymology 1

    Verb

    (head)
  • (run)

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (-)
  • (nautical) Yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch.

    • Etymology 3

    (etyl) ran

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Open robbery.
    • (Lambarde)
    (Webster 1913)

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