Swarm

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  • intransitive verb. To climb by gripping with the arms and legs.
  • intransitive verb. To climb (something) in this manner.
  • noun. A large number of insects or other small organisms, especially when in motion.
  • noun. A group of bees, social wasps, or ants, when migrating with a queen to establish a new colony.
  • noun. An aggregation of persons or animals, especially when in turmoil or moving in mass.
  • noun. A number of similar geologic phenomena or features occurring closely within a given period or place.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To move or emerge in a swarm.
  • intransitive verb. To leave a hive as a swarm. Used of bees.
  • intransitive verb. To move or gather in large numbers.
  • intransitive verb. To be overrun; teem: synonym: teem.
  • intransitive verb. To fill with a crowd.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A large number or body of insects or other small creatures, particularly when moving in a confused mass.
  • noun. Especially, a cluster or great number of honey-bees which emigrate from a hive at once, and seek new lodgings under the direction of a queen; also, a like body of bees settled permanently in a hive.
  • noun. In general, a great number or multitude; particularly, a multitude of people in motion: often used of inanimate objects: as, a swarm of meteors.
  • noun. Synonyms Crowd, throng, cluster.
  • To move in a swarm or in large numbers, as insects and other small creatures; specifically, to collect and depart from a hive by flight in a body, as bees.
  • To appear or come together in a crowd or confused multitude; congregate or throng in multitudes; crowd together with confused movements.
  • To be crowded; be overrun; be thronged with a multitude; abound; be filled with a number or crowd of objects.
  • To breed multitudes.
  • To crowd or throng.
  • To cause to breed in swarms.
  • To climb a tree, pole, or the like by embracing it with the arms and legs; shin: often with up.
  • To climb, as a tree, by embracing it with the arms and legs, and scrambling up.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. See shin.
  • transitive verb. To crowd or throng.
  • noun. A large number or mass of small animals or insects, especially when in motion.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. Hence, any great number or multitude, as of people in motion, or sometimes of inanimate objects.
  • intransitive verb. To collect, and depart from a hive by flight in a body; -- said of bees.
  • intransitive verb. To appear or collect in a crowd; to throng together; to congregate in a multitude.
  • intransitive verb. To be crowded; to be thronged with a multitude of beings in motion.
  • intransitive verb. To abound; to be filled (with).
  • intransitive verb. To breed multitudes.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A large number of insects, especially when in motion or (for bees) migrating to a new colony.
  • noun. A mass of people or animals in turmoil.
  • verb. To move as a swarm.
  • verb. To teem, or be overrun with insects.
  • verb. To fill a place as a swarm.
  • verb. To overwhelm as by an opposing army.
  • verb. To climb by gripping with arms and legs.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. move in large numbers
  • noun. a group of many things in the air or on the ground
  • verb. be teeming, be abuzz
  • noun. a moving crowd
  • Word Usage
    "Talk about bringing new meaning to the term "swarm ball.""
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    crowd  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Norm  conform  deform  disinform  dorm  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    army  band  bunch  cloud  cluster  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    variant
    shin  
    verb-form
    swarmed  swarming  swarms