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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  swarming
       adj 1: abundantly filled with especially living things; "the Third
              World's teeming millions"; "the teeming boulevard";
              "harried by swarming rats" [syn: {teeming}]
       2: (of birds and animals) tending to move or live together in
          groups or colonies of the same kind; "ants are social
          insects"; "the herding instinct in sheep or cattle";
          "swarming behavior in bees" [syn: {herding(a)}, {swarming(a)},
           {social}]
       3: filled by being spread over; sometimes used in combination;
          "the foe-swarming field"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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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