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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Swarm \Swarm\, verb (used without an object) [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Swarm \Swarm\, verb (used without an object) [Cf. {Swerve}.] 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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Swarm \Swarm\, noun [OE. swarm, AS. swearm; akin to D. zwerm, G. schwarm, OHG. swaram, Icel. svarmr a tumult, Sw. sv["a]rm a swarm, Dan. sv[ae]rm, and G. schwirren to whiz, to buzz, Skr. svar to sound, and perhaps to E. swear. [root]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 number 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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Swarm \Swarm\, verb (used with an object) To crowd or throng. --Fanshawe.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
swarm
noun
1: a moving crowd [syn: {drove}, {horde}]
2: a group of many insects; "a swarm of insects obscured the light"; "a cloud of butterflies" [syn: {cloud}]
verb
1: be teeming, be abuzz; "The garden was swarming with bees"; "The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen"; "her mind pullulated with worries" [syn: {teem}, {pullulate}]
2: move in large numbers; "people were pouring out of the theater"; "beggars pullulated in the plaza" [syn: {pour}, {stream}, {teem}, {pullulate}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
145 Moby Thesaurus words for "swarm": a mass of, a world of, abound, abound with, army, assemble, beset, bevy, bristle with, bunch, bunch up, burst with, charm, clot, cloud, cluster, clutter, collect, come together, congregate, converge, copulate, couple, covey, crawl, crawl with, creep with, crowd, date, drove, emigrate, emigration, expatriate, expatriation, fill, flight, flit, flock, flock together, flocks, flood, flow, flow together, forgather, fuse, gaggle, gang around, gang up, gather, gather around, hail, herd, herd together, hive, horde, host, huddle, immigrate, immigration, in-migrate, in-migration, infest, infestation, intermigrate, intermigration, invade, invasion, jam, know no bounds, large amount, league, legion, link, lots, lousiness, luxuriate, many, mass, masses of, meet, merge, migrate, migration, mill, mob, muchness, multitude, murmuration, muster, nest, numbers, out-migrate, out-migration, overabound, overbrim, overflow, overgrow, overrun, overrunning, overspill, overspread, overspreading, overswarm, overswarming, pack, passage, plague, plurality, pullulate, quantities, quite a few, rally, rally around, ravage, remigrate, remigration, rendezvous, rout, ruck, run, run riot, scores, seethe, shoal, skein, spill over, spring, stream, superabound, surge, swarm with, swarming, take wing, teem, teem with, teeming, throng, throng with, tidy sum, transmigrate, transmigration, trek, unite, watch, worlds of
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