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# {{label|en|intransitive}} To move as a '''swarm'''. |
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# {{label|en|intransitive}} To [[teem]], or be [[overrun]] with insects, people, etc. |
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#*: Every place '''swarms''' with soldiers. |
#*: Every place '''swarms''' with soldiers. |
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# {{label|en|transitive}} To fill a place as a '''swarm'''. |
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# {{label|en|transitive}} To [[overwhelm]] as by an opposing army. |
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# To [[climb]] by [[gripping]] with arms and legs alternately. |
# To [[climb]] by [[gripping]] with arms and legs alternately. |
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#*: At the top was placed a piece of money, as a prize for those who could '''swarm''' up and seize it. |
#*: At the top was placed a piece of money, as a prize for those who could '''swarm''' up and seize it. |
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#* '''1919''', {{w|W. Somerset Maugham}}, ''{{w|The Moon and Sixpence}}'', [[s:The Moon and Sixpence/Chapter LV|chapter 55]] |
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#*: She called out, and a boy came running along. He '''swarmed''' up a tree, and presently threw down a ripe nut. Ata pierced a hole in it, and the doctor took a long, refreshing draught. |
#*: She called out, and a boy came running along. He '''swarmed''' up a tree, and presently threw down a ripe nut. Ata pierced a hole in it, and the doctor took a long, refreshing draught. |
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# To breed multitudes. |
# To breed multitudes. |
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English
Pronunciation
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parameter) Rhymes: -ɔː(r)m
Etymology 1
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English (deprecated template usage) swarm, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English (deprecated template usage) swearm, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *swarmaz (“swarm, dizziness”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“to buzz, hum”). Cognate with (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Scots (deprecated template usage) swarm, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Dutch (deprecated template usage) zwerm, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] German (deprecated template usage) Schwarm, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Danish (deprecated template usage) sværm, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Swedish (deprecated template usage) svärm, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Icelandic (deprecated template usage) svarmur, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) susurrus, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lithuanian (deprecated template usage) surma, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Russian (deprecated template usage) свирель (svirel').
Noun
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swarm (plural swarms)
- A large number of insects, especially when in motion or (for bees) migrating to a new colony.
- Milton
- a deadly swarm of hornets
- Milton
- A mass of people, animals or things in motion or turmoil.
- a swarm of meteorites
- Addison
- those prodigious swarms that had settled themselves in every part of it [Italy]
- (computing) A group of nodes sharing the same torrent in a BitTorrent network.
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Etymology 2
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English (deprecated template usage) swarmen, (deprecated template usage) swermen, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English (deprecated template usage) swierman, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *swarmijaną (“to swarm”). Cognate with (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Scots (deprecated template usage) swairm, (deprecated template usage) swerm, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Dutch (deprecated template usage) zwermen, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] German (deprecated template usage) schwärmen, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Danish (deprecated template usage) sværme, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Swedish (deprecated template usage) svärma.
Verb
swarm (third-person singular simple present swarms, present participle swarming, simple past and past participle swarmed)
- (intransitive) To move as a swarm.
- (intransitive) To teem, or be overrun with insects, people, etc.
- Spenser
- Every place swarms with soldiers.
- Spenser
- (transitive) To fill a place as a swarm.
- (transitive) To overwhelm as by an opposing army.
- To climb by gripping with arms and legs alternately.
- W. Coxe
- At the top was placed a piece of money, as a prize for those who could swarm up and seize it.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 55
- She called out, and a boy came running along. He swarmed up a tree, and presently threw down a ripe nut. Ata pierced a hole in it, and the doctor took a long, refreshing draught.
- W. Coxe
- To breed multitudes.
- Milton
- Not so thick swarmed once the soil / Bedropped with blood of Gorgon.
- Milton
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See also
Anagrams
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/ɔː(r)m
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Old English
- English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English lemmas
- English nouns
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- en:Computing
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- English collective nouns