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

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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

• warms

Source: Wiktionary

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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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