"swim the Rhine" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: swims the Rhine [present, singular, third-person], swimming the Rhine [participle, present], swam the Rhine [past], swum the Rhine [participle, past]
Etymology: Variant of swim the Tiber, by substitution of Germany's river Rhine for Rome's river Tiber. Head templates: {{en-verb|swim<,,swam,swum> the Rhine}} swim the Rhine (third-person singular simple present swims the Rhine, present participle swimming the Rhine, simple past swam the Rhine, past participle swum the Rhine)
  1. (intransitive) To convert to Lutheranism. Wikipedia link: River Rhine Tags: intransitive Categories (topical): Protestantism Related terms: swim the Bosphorus (english: convert to Eastern Orthodoxy), swim the Forth (english: convert to Presbyterianism), swim the Thames (english: convert to Anglicanism), swim the Tiber (english: convert to Roman Catholicism)
    Sense id: en-swim_the_Rhine-en-verb-hg6IRWkA Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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