swarming
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Swarm \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.
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2. To appear or collect in a crowd; to throng together; to
congregate in a multitude. --Chaucer.
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3. To be crowded; to be thronged with a multitude of beings
in motion.
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Every place swarms with soldiers. --Spenser.
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4. To abound; to be filled (with). --Atterbury.
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5. To breed multitudes.
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Not so thick swarmed once the soil
Bedropped with blood of Gorgon. --Milton.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
107 Moby Thesaurus words for "swarming":
abounding, abundant, alive with, blooming, bountiful, bristling,
bursting, bursting out, close, compact, copious, crammed, crawling,
creative, creeping, crowded, crowding, dense, emigration,
expatriation, exuberant, fecund, fertile, firm, flight,
flourishing, fructiferous, fruitful, full, generous, honeycombed,
immigration, in profusion, in-migration, infestation,
intermigration, invasion, jam-packed, jammed, lavish, lousiness,
lush, luxuriant, migration, out-migration, overabundant,
overbounteous, overcopious, overexuberant, overflowing,
overgenerous, overlavish, overliberal, overluxuriant, overmuch,
overnumerous, overplenteous, overplentiful, overplenty,
overpopulated, overpopulous, overprolific, overrunning,
overspreading, overswarming, packed, passage, permeated, plague,
plenteous, plentiful, plethoric, populous, pregnant, prodigal,
productive, profuse, proliferating, proliferous, prolific,
pullulating, ravage, remigration, replete, rich, rife, riotous,
run, saturated, seminal, serried, shot through, solid, studded,
superabundant, swarm, teeming, thick, thick as hail, thick with,
thick-coming, thriving, thronged, thronging, transmigration, trek,
uberous
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