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SWARM
swarm, cloud
(noun) a group of many things in the air or on the ground; “a swarm of insects obscured the light”; “clouds of blossoms”; “it discharged a cloud of spores”
drove, horde, swarm
(noun) a moving crowd
pour, swarm, stream, teem, pullulate
(verb) move in large numbers; “people were pouring out of the theater”; “beggars pullulated in the plaza”
teem, pullulate, swarm
(verb) be teeming, be abuzz; “The garden was swarming with bees”; “The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen”; “her mind pullulated with worries”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
swarm (plural swarms)
A large number of insects, especially when in motion or (for bees) migrating to a new colony.
A mass of people, animals or things in motion or turmoil.
(computing) A group of nodes sharing the same torrent in a BitTorrent network.
Verb
swarm (third-person singular simple present swarms, present participle swarming, simple past and past participle swarmed)
(intransitive) To move as a swarm.
(intransitive) To teem, or be overrun with insects, people, etc.
(transitive) To fill a place as a swarm.
(transitive) To overwhelm as by an opposing army.
To climb by gripping with arms and legs alternately.
To breed multitudes.
Anagrams
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Source: Wiktionary
Swarm, v. i. Etym: [Cf. Swerve.]
Definition: To climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. See Shin. [Colloq.] At the top was placed a piece of money, as a prize for those who could swarm up and seize it. W. Coxe.
Swarm, n. Etym: [OE. swarm, AS. swearm; akin to D. zwerm, G. schwarm, OHG. swaram, Icel. svarmr a tumult, Sw. svärm a swarm, Dan. sværm, and G. schwirren to whiz, to buzz, Skr. svar to sound, and perhaps to E. swear. *177. Cf. Swerve, Swirl.]
1. A large number or mass of small animals or insects, especially when in motion. "A deadly swarm of hornets." Milton.
2. Especially, a great number of honeybees which emigrate from a hive at once, and seek new lodgings under the direction of a queen; a like body of bees settled permanently in a hive. "A swarm of bees." Chaucer.
3. Hence, any great nimber or multitude, as of people in motion, or sometimes of inanimate objects; as, a swarm of meteorites. Those prodigious swarms that had settled themselves in every part of it [Italy]. Addison.
Syn.
– Multitude; crowd; throng.
Swarm, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Swarmed; p. pr. & vb. n. Swarming.]
1. To collect, and depart from a hive by flight in a body; -- said of bees; as, bees swarm in warm, clear days in summer.
2. To appear or collect in a crowd; to throng together; to congregate in a multitude. Chaucer.
3. To be crowded; to be thronged with a multitude of beings in motion. Every place swarms with soldiers. Spenser.
4. To abound; to be filled (with). Atterbury.
5. To breed multitudes. Not so thick swarmed once the soil Bedropped with blood of Gorgon. Milton.
Swarm, v. t.
Definition: To crowd or throng. Fanshawe.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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