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swarming adjective [ ˈswɔːmɪŋ ]

• moving in or forming a large or dense group.
• "swarming locusts"

swarm verb

• (of flying insects) move in or form a swarm.
• "a plague of locusts swarmed across the countryside"
• move somewhere in large numbers.
• "protesters were swarming into the building"
Similar: flock, crowd, throng, stream, surge, flood, seethe, pack, crush,
Origin: Old English swearm (noun), of Germanic origin; related to German Schwarm, probably also to the base of Sanskrit svarati ‘it sounds’.


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