EGAVE

swarm

About 1.52 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A large number of insects or other bugs (e.g. centipedes), especially when in motion or (for bees) migrating to a new colony.
  2. noun A mass of people, animals or things in motion or turmoil.
    a swarm of meteorites
  3. noun A group of autonomous or semi-autonomous entities acting collectively through distributed coordination or self-organisation.
    a drone swarm
  4. noun A group of nodes sharing the same torrent in a BitTorrent network.
  5. noun A number of small earthquakes (or other seismic events) occurring, with no clear cause, in a specific area within a relatively short space of time.
  6. verb To move as a swarm.
  7. verb To teem, or be overrun with insects, people, etc.
  8. verb To fill a place as a swarm.

Similar words

drove pour stream teem horde beehive hive flock herd band

Often followed by

of in with over and around to is into

Word family

swarmed swarmer swarmers swarming swarms

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