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Meanings of swarm in English

Portuguese
massa
Catalan
horda
Spanish
rebaño

A moving crowd.

        massa
        Portuguese
        formigar
        Catalan
        abundar

        Move in large numbers.

              Related terms
              formigar
              Portuguese
              enxame
              Catalan
              eixam

              A group of many things in the air or on the ground.

                    enxame
                    Usage of swarm in English
                    1
                    They grind their points; they stir poison; they swarm in the streets.
                    Vergilius: A Tale of the Coming of Christ
                    2
                    The breach widens; the green and yellow turbans swarm within the walls.
                    The Days of Mohammed
                    3
                    In Maiduguri, the camps swarm with tens of thousands of new arrivals.
                    Reuters
                    4
                    My swarm-mates ask you to carry some small things to other places.
                    Jem
                    5
                    The entire swarm moved once more in the direction of the inn.
                    My Life — Volume 1
                    6
                    However, there was also a brief seismic swarm under Tongariro in 2001.
                    Wired
                    7
                    The Navy is working on a new tool to combat the swarm.
                    Wired
                    8
                    In other words, history could be on the side of the swarm.
                    The Guardian
                    9
                    The beekeeper was called again to remove the second swarm of bees.
                    Reuters
                    10
                    Out of the labor ghettos they swarm and into their dismal slave-pens.
                    The Centralia Conspiracy
                    11
                    Also pressed ferociously from the start to help swarm the Real midfield.
                    The Guardian
                    12
                    They swarm near a fixed point of reference such as a branch.
                    The Irish Times
                    13
                    Also they hunt the rock creatures that swarm in the lower darkness.
                    Storm Over Warlock
                    14
                    Two or three persons were drowned; but still the swarm pressed on.
                    The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2)
                    15
                    It transforms your subject from a single mass into an ungraspable swarm.
                    Wired
                    16
                    Tourists swarm over the country from the Naze to the North Cape.
                    The Visionary: Pictures From Nordland
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                    United Kingdom
                    Common
                    United States of America
                    Common
                    Ireland
                    Less common