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Swarm   /swɔrm/   Listen
Swarm

noun
1.
A moving crowd.  Synonyms: drove, horde.
2.
A group of many things in the air or on the ground.  Synonym: cloud.  "Clouds of blossoms" , "It discharged a cloud of spores"
verb
(past & past part. swarmed; pres. part. swarming)
1.
Be teeming, be abuzz.  Synonyms: pullulate, teem.  "The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen" , "Her mind pullulated with worries"
2.
Move in large numbers.  Synonyms: pour, pullulate, stream, teem.  "Beggars pullulated in the plaza"



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"Swarm" Quotes from Famous Books



... of sulphurous blackness. The bullets are as thick as if a swarm of leaden locusts had been routed from the foliage, and taken wing hillward. Then behind, through the gaps in the trees, big, whining, screeching swarms of another caliber shells fly over the wall of blue. In a moment the ground of ...
— The Iron Game - A Tale of the War • Henry Francis Keenan

... chairs, high-backed, primitive structures, painted green: one or two heavy black ones lurking in the shade. In an arch under the dresser reposed a huge, liver-coloured bitch pointer, surrounded by a swarm of squealing puppies; and other ...
— Wuthering Heights • Emily Bronte

... A swarm of ladies fluttered into the empty hall. A middle-aged spinster literally flung herself towards the young man, and, clasping ...
— The Saint • Antonio Fogazzaro

... invade the very mountains in their turn. He saw the doom of that small, hidden still which had been his father's secret, years ago, was now his secret from the prying eyes of law and progress. That the "revenuers," soon or late, would get it, now that their allies were building steel highways to swarm on, was inevitable. His heart beat fast with a new anger, anticipatory of their coming ...
— In Old Kentucky • Edward Marshall and Charles T. Dazey

... night were beginning to settle upon the baking earth and a certain uneasiness was entering her bosom. Then she caught a glimpse of his figure in the distance. With his swarm of soldiers behind him he came from the forest and across the narrow lowlands toward the river. He steadfastly refused to be carried to and from the "fortifications" in the rude litter that had been constructed for him, a duplicate of which had been made for her. A native with a ...
— Nedra • George Barr McCutcheon


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