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

swarm \swarm\, n. oe. swarm, as. swearm; akin to d. zwerm, g.
   schwarm, ohg. swaram, icel. svarmr a tumult, sw. svaumrm a
   swarm, dan. svaerm, and g. schwirren to whiz, to buzz, skr.
   svar to sound, and perhaps to e. swear. root177. cf.
   swerve, swirl.
   1. a large number or mass of small animals or insects,
      especially when in motion. "a deadly swarm of hornets."
      --milton.
      1913 webster

   2. 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. "a swarm of bees." --chaucer.
      1913 webster

   3. hence, any great number or multitude, as of people in
      motion, or sometimes of inanimate objects; as, a swarm of
      meteorites.
      1913 webster

            those prodigious swarms that had settled themselves
            in every part of it italy.          --addison.
      1913 webster

   syn: multitude; crowd; throng.
        1913 webster
see also:
swerve swirl 

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

swarm \swarm\, v. i. cf. swerve.
   to climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the
   arms and legs alternately. see shin. colloq.
   1913 webster

         at the top was placed a piece of money, as a prize for
         those who could swarm up and seize it.   --w. coxe.
   1913 webster
see also:
swerve shin 

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

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.
      1913 webster

   2. to appear or collect in a crowd; to throng together; to
      congregate in a multitude. --chaucer.
      1913 webster

   3. to be crowded; to be thronged with a multitude of beings
      in motion.
      1913 webster

            every place swarms with soldiers.     --spenser.
      1913 webster

   4. to abound; to be filled with. --atterbury.
      1913 webster

   5. to breed multitudes.
      1913 webster

            not so thick swarmed once the soil
            bedropped with blood of gorgon.       --milton.
      1913 webster
see also:
swarmed swarming 

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

swarm \swarm\, v. t.
   to crowd or throng. --fanshawe.
   1913 webster

[5] : WordNet (r) 2.0

swarm
     n 1: a moving crowd syn: drove, horde
     2: a group of many insects; "a swarm of insects obscured the
        light"; "a cloud of butterflies" syn: cloud
     v 1: be teeming, be abuzz; "the garden was swarming with bees";
          "the plaza is teeming with undercover policemen"; "her
          mind pullulated with worries" syn: teem, pullulate
     2: move in large numbers; "people were pouring out of the
        theater"; "beggars pullulated in the plaza" syn: pour,
        stream, teem, pullulate
see also:
drove horde cloud teem pullulate pour 
stream 

[6] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

145 moby thesaurus words for "swarm":
   a mass of, a world of, abound, abound with, army, assemble, beset,
   bevy, bristle with, bunch, bunch up, burst with, charm, clot,
   cloud, cluster, clutter, collect, come together, congregate,
   converge, copulate, couple, covey, crawl, crawl with, creep with,
   crowd, date, drove, emigrate, emigration, expatriate, expatriation,
   fill, flight, flit, flock, flock together, flocks, flood, flow,
   flow together, forgather, fuse, gaggle, gang around, gang up,
   gather, gather around, hail, herd, herd together, hive, horde,
   host, huddle, immigrate, immigration, in-migrate, in-migration,
   infest, infestation, intermigrate, intermigration, invade,
   invasion, jam, know no bounds, large amount, league, legion, link,
   lots, lousiness, luxuriate, many, mass, masses of, meet, merge,
   migrate, migration, mill, mob, muchness, multitude, murmuration,
   muster, nest, numbers, out-migrate, out-migration, overabound,
   overbrim, overflow, overgrow, overrun, overrunning, overspill,
   overspread, overspreading, overswarm, overswarming, pack, passage,
   plague, plurality, pullulate, quantities, quite a few, rally,
   rally around, ravage, remigrate, remigration, rendezvous, rout,
   ruck, run, run riot, scores, seethe, shoal, skein, spill over,
   spring, stream, superabound, surge, swarm with, swarming,
   take wing, teem, teem with, teeming, throng, throng with, tidy sum,
   transmigrate, transmigration, trek, unite, watch, worlds of

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