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Swarm   /swɔrm/   Listen
noun
Swarm  n.  
1.
A large number or mass of small animals or insects, especially when in motion. "A deadly swarm of hornets."
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."
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)."
Synonyms: Multitude; crowd; throng.


verb
Swarm  v. t.  To crowd or throng.


Swarm  v. i.  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."


Swarm  v. i.  (past & past part. swarmed; pres. part. 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.
3.
To be crowded; to be thronged with a multitude of beings in motion. "Every place swarms with soldiers."
4.
To abound; to be filled (with).
5.
To breed multitudes. "Not so thick swarmed once the soil Bedropped with blood of Gorgon."





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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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