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[1] : 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 
[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
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: herdinga, swarminga,
         social
     3: filled by being spread over; sometimes used in combination;
        "the foe-swarming field"
see also:
teeming herdinga swarminga social 
[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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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