Definition of swarm in English:

swarm

noun swɔːmswɔrm

1A large or dense group of flying insects.
一大群昆虫（尤指飞行的昆虫）
a swarm of locusts
一大群记者。
Example sentencesExamples
- The Hosta had been ravaged by a swarm of ‘roly-polies,’ or pillbugs.
- There can be up to 40 billion locusts in one swarm. During one plague in Somalia, the locusts devoured enough food to feed 400,000 people for a whole year.
- There was a swarm of summer insects flitting through the air in search of the food promised by the flower odors of the fatal garden.
- Yet everyone is out there mad with joy over a swarm of insects that will eat most every living plant in sight!
- With a snare of some sort in one and a swarm of buzzing insects in the other, neither of the tunnels looked inviting.
- Digital noise reduction causes people's faces and clothes to crawl, as though they were covered by a swarm of small insects.
- An epic struggle between the Genohunters and a swarm of insects continues as the screen fades to black.
- The visual effect evoked a gentle snowstorm or a swarm of insects, associations which, it must be added, the artist regards as entirely incidental.
- From schools of fish to a swarm of ants, animals exhibit extraordinary collective behaviour.
- And even if you have the good luck to be healthy, a swarm of locusts could devour your crops, a tsunami could wash away your family, or a hurricane could blow apart your town.
- However, the very next day they found a swarm of mature adults very near the surface off Anaa Island.
- Along the way, we remarked on the strange powdery consistency of the soil and marveled as we were surrounded by a swarm of infinitesimal white insects.
- Being dinner for a swarm of insects is nobody's idea of a good time.
- But in October 1988 a swarm of desert locusts crossed the Atlantic traveling from Africa to the Caribbean.
- Chances are, you've noticed a swarm of these black-and-red insects loitering in sunny spots as the weather turns cool.
- The whole time he was on top of her, a swarm of tiny insects hanging over his right shoulder, she kept the woods in her peripheral vision.
- Here they lead a nomadic life, following the insect swarms which provide their principal diet.
1. 1.1 A large number of honeybees that leave a hive en masse with a newly fertilized queen in order to establish a new colony.
  离巢的蜂群，分蜂群
  Example sentencesExamples
  He donned a protective suit and used a brush to gather the 4,000-strong swarm into a hive box before re-housing them.
  As the swarms subside, mated new queens break off their wings and seek underground cavities in which to begin new colonies while the males die.
  Finally, after perhaps several days of house-hunting, one of the sites gains overwhelming favour and the swarm moves off to start a new hive there.
  Africanised bees typically attack in swarms that are between three and four times the size of European honey bee swarms, which causes a greater number of stings.
  When these queens mature into adults, they compete to head a new colony either by leaving with a secondary swarm or by becoming the queen in the established nest site.
  In 1957 swarms of the Africanized honeybee escaped the quarantine and began to establish colonies.
  The trade and transportation of queen bees, bees are families and swarms of bees without a certificate of origin and a veterinary certificate would be prohibited under the bill.
  Back in the US, the Pentagon has announced that it has trained honey bees to sniff out and swarm to explosives instead of flowers.
  He explained why they swarm and how the queen is the centre of the swarm's activity.
  Prospective beekeepers need to learn only fundamental skills such as safe handling of bees while collecting honey or when swarms are being transferred to the hives.
  In 1990, a honey bee swarm unlike any before found in the United States was identified just outside the small south Texas town of Hidalgo.
  Honey bees rarely swarm away from the hive and only sting if they are antagonised.
  During summer at Shoalhaven, several new swarms left his property to set up new hives in the bush each day.
  Synonyms
  hive, flight, flock, covey
2. 1.2a swarm/swarms of A large number of people or things.
  一大群人（或物）
  a swarm of journalists
  一大群记者。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The ball broke among a swarm of backs and forwards and was met by the flying hurl of Red Brian Murphy and then the net.
  Electron diameters are imprecise, but not because there are swarms of micro-electron-dust, each particle of which is also a swarm of something even smaller.
  Loup shouted, and a swarm of vehicles and troops charged from the base into the Oppressor line.
  As a swarm of new dot-com brands try to buy their way to brand recognition, clutter makes it difficult to break out, and it's easy to fritter away advertising dollars.
  Basso's team swarm around him like worker bees around their Queen, but they are in for a hard day in the saddle.
  A swarm of birds hopped from the nearby rooftops and sped off into the air.
  After decisively defeating a swarm of litigants claiming priority of conception he pursued a multitude of ideas and causes.
  The crowd froze as a swarm of Steamers jerseys surged towards the Canterbury line and the clock ticked into the red a converted try was all that was needed to keep the Ranfurly Shield at home.
  The opening minutes saw the Trinity goal a swarm of bodies as Emmaus launched several attacks that had Trinity on the back foot.
  Air flowing into your nose carries with it a swarm of complex organic molecules that get trapped in the mucus-rich lining of the nose's inner recesses.
  It permeates our affective landscape, impressing itself upon us so thoroughly that our very corporeal existence becomes host to a swarm of signs.
  At times, Rheingold tries a bit too hard to buttress his cogent observations with academic theories that draw parallels between smart mobs and swarms such as ant colonies.
  When one set of contestants comprises a swarm of tiny, highly mobile sperm and the other a few large, immotile eggs, there is a certain inevitability about the outcome.
  In January she had visited Slimbridge, the bird sanctuary on the Severn in Gloucestershire, to witness the famous flights of starlings that swarm there in their tens of thousands before roosting.
  We made our way among a swarm of bodies, until I was face to face with a woman who was sobbing uninhibitedly.
  The users' dislike of the application is actually caused by a swarm of tiny usability annoyances.
  Viropharma stock was one of his calls during this period, and his people piled into it hugely, followed by a swarm of tag-along momentum players.
  A British aerospace company is now working on a top secret flight system which could allow a pilot to control swarms of unmanned planes from the air.
  Care would have to be taken to deflect the body intact rather than break it into pieces because a swarm of fragments might be more destructive than a single object.
  Researchers say a swarm of bouncing, spherical bots the size of baseballs could hop across the red planet to search for life.
  Synonyms
  crowd, multitude, horde, host, mob, gang, throng, stream, mass, body, band, army, troop, legion, flock, herd, pack, drove, sea, array, myriad, pile
  knot, cluster, group
3. 1.3 A series of similar-sized earthquakes occurring together, typically near a volcano.
  （多指发生在火山附近的）地震群
  Example sentencesExamples
  This value indicates a behaviour strongly controlled by intense seismic swarms, rather than by isolated fracturing episodes.
  Earthquake swarms in 1998 and 2001 did not result in any surface activity.
  And then we had swarms of earthquakes, which set everybody's nerves on edge.
  The most intense swarms of earthquakes detected in the last 10 to 12 years on the far edge of the Juan de Fuca plate could indicate the eruption of magma from the seafloor or an underwater volcano.
  Though they are unusual, earthquake swarms have happened before in other regions of the UK.
  Dr Gledhill said swarms of small shallow earthquakes were reasonably common in the Bay, but some of the ones in this swarm were larger than usual, making it about a once-in-a-decade event.
  Scientists aren't sure what causes quake swarms.
  The July-August 2001 eruption at Etna was heralded by a seismic swarm initiated during the night of 12-13 July.
  Similar earthquake swarms were recorded in 1998 and 2001, but no explosion occurred in either year, Pierson said.
  Archaean and Proterozoic basement terranes are commonly dissected by swarms of Precambrian mafic dykes.
  The cause and outcome of the earthquake swarm are uncertain at this time.
  The Geological Survey has been monitoring St. Helens closely since last Thursday, when swarms of tiny earthquakes were first recorded.
  The USGS has been monitoring St. Helens closely since Sept. 23, when swarms of tiny earthquakes were first recorded.
  The sequential character is known as an earthquake swarm, a phenomenon of periodic tremors that can continue for months or even a year before quieting.
  So now seismologists are actually recording the swarms of the earthquake activity from the volcano.
  The swarm of very small earthquakes was the third and largest such episode of activity since the eruption in May-August, 2003.
  But Qamar said he was more interested in the swarm of earthquakes than worried by them.
  In March last year, the region saw a so-called seismic swarm - a series of around 350 small earthquakes, centred on the bulge itself about three miles away from the South Sister.
  The USGS has been monitoring St. Helens closely since September 23, when swarms of tiny earthquakes were first recorded.
  The phenomenon surprised experts, who concluded the sequence was an earthquake swarm.
4. 1.4Astronomy A large number of minor celestial objects occurring together in space, especially a dense shower of meteors.
  〔天文〕一大群小型天体同时在空中出现（尤指流星雨）
  Example sentencesExamples
  By month's end it lies less than a degree away from the famous Beehive star cluster, which appears in binoculars as a swarm of points.
  The cluster collision is the most powerful ever recorded and a fresh glimpse of the cluster merging process, where great swarms of galaxies smash into one another to form a single galactic structure.
  Any optimism is, however, tempered by the fact that - should the Shiva hypothesis be true - the next swarm of Oort Cloud comets could even now be speeding towards the inner solar system.
  Although he was not the first astronomer to propose such a comet swarm, the as-yet unconfirmed cloud is usually known as the ‘Oort Cloud’.
  He pointed out an especially thick swarm of meteors.
  Since Earth is actually orbiting the Sun through a swarm of solar system debris, the answer has to be yes.

verb swɔːmswɔrm

[no object]

1(of flying insects) move in or form a swarm.
（昆虫）成群地飞
a plague of locusts swarmed across the countryside
Example sentencesExamples
- Yap felt the insects swarming over him, biting and stinging, scraping and clawing, and he realized he had just run out of options.
- Thousands of flies have swarmed into Kimberworth over the last few weeks causing residents to put up special fly paper to catch the insects.
- A tethered cow is occasionally discovered, smothered in ants, asphyxiated and bleeding internally from where the insects swarmed in through its ears, mouth and nose.
- More than 150 passengers were evacuated from a Virgin Voyager train travelling from Newcastle to Cardiff after the insects swarmed through a carriage.
- An enormous dense cloud of the insects swarmed out of their dwelling in angry unison.
- These handsome insects swarm out of holes in the ground where they have been hibernating for precisely seventeen years.
- Bugs swarm around a streetlight while clouds roll across the evening sky.
- One night millions of insects swarmed around my bungalow.
- Phase change causes the locusts to swarm over vegetation, behavior that has wreaked havoc on crops in Africa and the Middle East for centuries.
- Insects swarm about the damp light of the street-lamps, their buzzings reflected very slightly in the bitumen below your feet.
- If there was no breeze, the insects would swarm in, although cockroaches never needed an excuse.
- ‘No smoking in store, sir’ he started as locusts started swarming and gathering above.
- The waters were thick and the forest lush, insect flew and swarmed about the boat; the air hung stiller.
- Unseen insects chirped and swarmed through the sunwarmed grasses and undergrowth, the razzing of cicadas a continuous chorus in the summer air.
- Locusts swarmed through Cairo earlier this week.
- These insect swarms cause massive crop losses across the southern and central United States, costing billions of dollars annually.
- Hungry for the sweet lining beneath the bark, the beetles have swarmed over the trees, overwhelming their normal defence mechanisms.
- Flies swarmed in the kitchen, and everything was in total chaos.
- ‘Insects swarm from the filter beds into foliage close by,’ Appleton said.
- The moths swarm together for a moment, then disappear like candle flames going out.
1. 1.1 (of honeybees, ants, or termites) issue from the nest in large numbers in order to mate and found new colonies.
  （蜜蜂，蚂蚁，白蚁）分群
  the bees had swarmed and left the hive
  蜜蜂已分群，并离开了蜂巢。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He had a dream that some children were poking a bee's nest with a stick and that the bees swarmed out and stung his whole body.
  Honeybees swarm, using hollows in trees which would otherwise be home to native birds or animals.
  I looked around and saw Cliff waving his arms frantically, because he was being swarmed by some local bees.
  But for many in the South, the annual emergence of fertile, winged termites swarming furiously to scatter and search for mates isn't one of them.
  Hundreds of honeybees swarm around the 3-foot-high wooden hive in the suburban backyard at 33 Kettle St.
  During their tests, honeybees swarmed areas where explosive residue was present.
  Honey suckle edged the white picket fence and roses, swarmed by busy bees filled the gardens with paths of white pebbles.
  Don't stand in any one place too long or the fire ants may swarm all over your feet.
  A gentle splash was echoed by the sounds of thousands of silver - blue things swarming the surface.
  The word wasp almost immediately conjures up an image of hornets swarming from papery football-shaped nests, or the fierce stings of the common paper wasp.
  Plagues of bugs, germs and ants swarm through the pages of her books.
  This process is functionally equivalent to swarming in honeybees, but with a longer time scale.
  By way of example, it is suggested that an insecticide is applied to sexually mature male insects so that it spreads to the rest of the population during mating and swarming.
  A bee swarm makes for an alarming sight to the uninformed but swarming bees are not dangerous, only homeless.
  But strict attention has to be paid to swarm control to stop the bees ‘buzzing off’ and loss of the honey crop.
  They will also nest and swarm in cars and other vehicles and there's nothing more annoying than getting swarmed by a billion tiny ants while driving.
  When the colonies reproduce through swarming, workers rear a number of new queens, only a few of which will ultimately head a colony.
  A woman working at a computer company bought a piece of chocolate bread for breakfast, and after a few mouthfuls, realized that a horde of black ants was swarming all over her snack.
  In 1948 thousands of grasshoppers swarmed Montreal and outlying districts.
  And like wild dogs after a wounded buffalo, the ants swarmed over it, their terrible serrated jaws clamped tight or biting, biting, biting.
2 Move somewhere in large numbers.
蜂拥
protesters were swarming into the building
抗议者们蜂拥着冲进大楼。
Example sentencesExamples
- People emerged from the main station building and swarmed to the train, so we joined in as best we could.
- Twenty minutes later, All the students were told to stay in their home rooms while police swarmed the building again.
- The market opens out into a harbour where people swarm everywhere, mending nets and building brightly coloured boats.
- As Katrina entered the building, everyone swarmed around her and started asking questions.
- U.S. forces watched but did not intervene as plunderers swarmed into several government buildings and the National Museum, the report said.
- A buzz of protest swarmed across his men, each too timid to shout over the others.
- VISUALISE THE scenario of over 1000 children swarming a compact building in the city and spending the whole day playing, eating and chatting.
- And the caribou swarming around the dumpster outside my apartment building are really, really scaring me.
- Hoarded up in abandoned buildings, the government swarmed around them for weeks, in an attempt to force the Kerberos to stand down.
- Chaos reigned in the main entranceway as police officers swarmed into the building.
- With views obscured by buildings, people swarmed on to the roads and headed towards open areas, such as Lendal Bridge and Museum Gardens, blocking the path of motorists and buses.
- Orderlies and staff officers swarmed the buildings, carrying orders to the front-line troops.
- In South Florida, long lines reappeared at gas stations and shoppers swarmed home building stores and supermarkets.
- Hundreds of police in riot gear swarmed the area, pushing protesters away from the Garden and into nearby side streets.
- When they unfurled it dozens of cops swarmed over the protesters, knocking them to the ground and arresting several.
- In what seemed like an unprecedented invasion, the ladybugs, or lady beetles, as they are also known, appeared everywhere, swarming around buildings and trees.
- Agents of the secret police swarmed among its buildings and along its thoroughfares like ‘locusts.’
- Clouds of dust and a fearful racket greeted us, and hundreds of workmen swarmed over file building.
- Police and federal agents swarmed in on that building today as part of a joint anti-terror operation.
- Thousands of protesters swarmed the streets of Peshawar, in the north west, shouting anti-American and anti-Pakistani slogans.
Synonyms
flock, crowd, throng, stream, surge, flood, seethe, pack, crush
1. 2.1swarm with Be crowded or overrun with (moving people or things)
  （人或物）密集；云集
  the place was swarming with police
  这个地方警察云集。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The police and paramilitary forces arrived and the club field swarmed with khaki-clad security personnel and curious onlookers.
  On the way in, the Tube was swarming with teenagers.
  Within minutes the area was swarming with police cars and dogs and helicopters.
  The vermicelli, indeed, resembled a tree swarming with ants, while it absorbed the rich sauce like a sponge.
  Today shocked residents described how they had woken to find their street swarming with police officers.
  The lanes around the Daffodil Lion swarmed with police, blocking all routes to the air base which was about two-and-a-half miles away in the next valley.
  Since the entire Italy is swarming with museums and art, the city of Florence too grounds few wonderful ones.
  More police this morning, swarming with cameras on the other side of the street.
  But then Vauxhall started swarming with police and before you could work out what was going on, the roads were being closed off.
  We got away from it and within minutes the place was swarming with police.
  Edinburgh is swarming with people every year for more than one reason.
  The whole area is swarming with police, as is the subway station.
  The rest of York is awash with shoppers swarming with mad carrier bags in the cold.
  Barrio Santa Cruz, the pretty old Jewish quarter, is swarming with budget options, but this charming music-themed hotel is a cut above.
  The three - tier gallery spanning the sides of the maidan and the raised platform on the east are swarming with exercise freaks.
  The hallways swarmed with kids and we were both swallowed up in the crowd.
  The Radisson hotel is swarming with medical crews, police officers.
  The area had been converted, unsurprisingly, into a crime scene swarming with police.
  When he'd anxiously come into work a few days ago, he'd expected the campus to be swarmed with police.
  The trash bins after a holiday weekend, rotting, swarming with flies.
  Synonyms
  be crowded with, be thronged with, be overrun with, be full of, abound in, be teeming with, be bristling with, bristle with, be alive with, be crawling with, be infested with, overflow with, brim with, be prolific in, be abundant in
  informal be thick with, be lousy with

Phrasal Verbs

swarm up

Climb (something) rapidly by gripping it with one's hands and feet, alternately hauling and pushing oneself upwards.
攀；爬
I swarmed up the mast
我爬上了桅杆。
Example sentencesExamples
- Men began to swarm up out of the manhole cover behind me, and men erupted from covers and storm drains all over the center of the city.
- The path leads through open zones of tussocky grasses, silver birches, and woods, honeysuckle swarms up the pines.
- I remember this from childhood - great clouds of oversized winged insects, swarming up from the pavement cracks and the nooks and crannies in walls.
- The kids in the village are swarming up and down my road tonight, setting the dogs barking.
- The three sides are decorated with relief mouldings showing Hell, Purgatory and Paradise with people swarming up each surface.
- Yes, they've seen them thick enough to swarm up in clouds from their yard and turn their white awnings grey.
- Their purpose is to lay down suppressing fire, along with the field guns, which will allow the men in the boats to swarm up the hill in either direction like an army of ants.
- They swarmed up the levelled rock blockage, pushed through the gap that Tiffany had blasted, dragging at rock that crumbled at their touch.
- Police then moved the exercise to Stormont, swarming up to the home of the power-sharing government in a train of armoured Land Rovers.
- One of the more grandiose images, of a crowd swarming up the mount to hear a sermon from Christ as the sun slowly sets, wasn't planned and came about purely by accident.
Synonyms
ascend, mount, scale, scramble up, clamber up, shin up

Origin

Old English swearm (noun), of Germanic origin; related to German Schwarm, probably also to the base of Sanskrit svarati 'it sounds'.

Rhymes

conform, corm, dorm, form, forme, haulm, lukewarm, Maugham, misinform, norm, outperform, perform, shawm, storm, transform, underperform, warm

Definition of swarm in US English:

swarm

nounswôrmswɔrm

1A large or dense group of insects, especially flying ones.
一大群昆虫（尤指飞行的昆虫）
Example sentencesExamples
- Along the way, we remarked on the strange powdery consistency of the soil and marveled as we were surrounded by a swarm of infinitesimal white insects.
- The whole time he was on top of her, a swarm of tiny insects hanging over his right shoulder, she kept the woods in her peripheral vision.
- With a snare of some sort in one and a swarm of buzzing insects in the other, neither of the tunnels looked inviting.
- An epic struggle between the Genohunters and a swarm of insects continues as the screen fades to black.
- From schools of fish to a swarm of ants, animals exhibit extraordinary collective behaviour.
- Here they lead a nomadic life, following the insect swarms which provide their principal diet.
- But in October 1988 a swarm of desert locusts crossed the Atlantic traveling from Africa to the Caribbean.
- However, the very next day they found a swarm of mature adults very near the surface off Anaa Island.
- Chances are, you've noticed a swarm of these black-and-red insects loitering in sunny spots as the weather turns cool.
- There can be up to 40 billion locusts in one swarm. During one plague in Somalia, the locusts devoured enough food to feed 400,000 people for a whole year.
- Being dinner for a swarm of insects is nobody's idea of a good time.
- Yet everyone is out there mad with joy over a swarm of insects that will eat most every living plant in sight!
- The visual effect evoked a gentle snowstorm or a swarm of insects, associations which, it must be added, the artist regards as entirely incidental.
- And even if you have the good luck to be healthy, a swarm of locusts could devour your crops, a tsunami could wash away your family, or a hurricane could blow apart your town.
- The Hosta had been ravaged by a swarm of ‘roly-polies,’ or pillbugs.
- Digital noise reduction causes people's faces and clothes to crawl, as though they were covered by a swarm of small insects.
- There was a swarm of summer insects flitting through the air in search of the food promised by the flower odors of the fatal garden.
1. 1.1 A large number of honeybees that leave a hive en masse with a newly fertilized queen in order to establish a new colony.
  离巢的蜂群，分蜂群
  Example sentencesExamples
  When these queens mature into adults, they compete to head a new colony either by leaving with a secondary swarm or by becoming the queen in the established nest site.
  The trade and transportation of queen bees, bees are families and swarms of bees without a certificate of origin and a veterinary certificate would be prohibited under the bill.
  He explained why they swarm and how the queen is the centre of the swarm's activity.
  In 1990, a honey bee swarm unlike any before found in the United States was identified just outside the small south Texas town of Hidalgo.
  He donned a protective suit and used a brush to gather the 4,000-strong swarm into a hive box before re-housing them.
  In 1957 swarms of the Africanized honeybee escaped the quarantine and began to establish colonies.
  During summer at Shoalhaven, several new swarms left his property to set up new hives in the bush each day.
  Back in the US, the Pentagon has announced that it has trained honey bees to sniff out and swarm to explosives instead of flowers.
  Africanised bees typically attack in swarms that are between three and four times the size of European honey bee swarms, which causes a greater number of stings.
  Prospective beekeepers need to learn only fundamental skills such as safe handling of bees while collecting honey or when swarms are being transferred to the hives.
  Finally, after perhaps several days of house-hunting, one of the sites gains overwhelming favour and the swarm moves off to start a new hive there.
  Honey bees rarely swarm away from the hive and only sting if they are antagonised.
  As the swarms subside, mated new queens break off their wings and seek underground cavities in which to begin new colonies while the males die.
  Synonyms
  hive, flight, flock, covey
2. 1.2a swarm/swarms of A large number of people or things.
  一大群人（或物）
  a swarm of journalists
  一大群记者。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Care would have to be taken to deflect the body intact rather than break it into pieces because a swarm of fragments might be more destructive than a single object.
  Researchers say a swarm of bouncing, spherical bots the size of baseballs could hop across the red planet to search for life.
  At times, Rheingold tries a bit too hard to buttress his cogent observations with academic theories that draw parallels between smart mobs and swarms such as ant colonies.
  In January she had visited Slimbridge, the bird sanctuary on the Severn in Gloucestershire, to witness the famous flights of starlings that swarm there in their tens of thousands before roosting.
  Electron diameters are imprecise, but not because there are swarms of micro-electron-dust, each particle of which is also a swarm of something even smaller.
  A British aerospace company is now working on a top secret flight system which could allow a pilot to control swarms of unmanned planes from the air.
  A swarm of birds hopped from the nearby rooftops and sped off into the air.
  When one set of contestants comprises a swarm of tiny, highly mobile sperm and the other a few large, immotile eggs, there is a certain inevitability about the outcome.
  The ball broke among a swarm of backs and forwards and was met by the flying hurl of Red Brian Murphy and then the net.
  It permeates our affective landscape, impressing itself upon us so thoroughly that our very corporeal existence becomes host to a swarm of signs.
  The users' dislike of the application is actually caused by a swarm of tiny usability annoyances.
  After decisively defeating a swarm of litigants claiming priority of conception he pursued a multitude of ideas and causes.
  Basso's team swarm around him like worker bees around their Queen, but they are in for a hard day in the saddle.
  The crowd froze as a swarm of Steamers jerseys surged towards the Canterbury line and the clock ticked into the red a converted try was all that was needed to keep the Ranfurly Shield at home.
  As a swarm of new dot-com brands try to buy their way to brand recognition, clutter makes it difficult to break out, and it's easy to fritter away advertising dollars.
  The opening minutes saw the Trinity goal a swarm of bodies as Emmaus launched several attacks that had Trinity on the back foot.
  Viropharma stock was one of his calls during this period, and his people piled into it hugely, followed by a swarm of tag-along momentum players.
  We made our way among a swarm of bodies, until I was face to face with a woman who was sobbing uninhibitedly.
  Loup shouted, and a swarm of vehicles and troops charged from the base into the Oppressor line.
  Air flowing into your nose carries with it a swarm of complex organic molecules that get trapped in the mucus-rich lining of the nose's inner recesses.
  Synonyms
  crowd, multitude, horde, host, mob, gang, throng, stream, mass, body, band, army, troop, legion, flock, herd, pack, drove, sea, array, myriad, pile
3. 1.3 A series of similar-sized earthquakes occurring together, typically near a volcano.
  （多指发生在火山附近的）地震群
  Example sentencesExamples
  Dr Gledhill said swarms of small shallow earthquakes were reasonably common in the Bay, but some of the ones in this swarm were larger than usual, making it about a once-in-a-decade event.
  The swarm of very small earthquakes was the third and largest such episode of activity since the eruption in May-August, 2003.
  The cause and outcome of the earthquake swarm are uncertain at this time.
  The sequential character is known as an earthquake swarm, a phenomenon of periodic tremors that can continue for months or even a year before quieting.
  The USGS has been monitoring St. Helens closely since September 23, when swarms of tiny earthquakes were first recorded.
  But Qamar said he was more interested in the swarm of earthquakes than worried by them.
  In March last year, the region saw a so-called seismic swarm - a series of around 350 small earthquakes, centred on the bulge itself about three miles away from the South Sister.
  Though they are unusual, earthquake swarms have happened before in other regions of the UK.
  Similar earthquake swarms were recorded in 1998 and 2001, but no explosion occurred in either year, Pierson said.
  This value indicates a behaviour strongly controlled by intense seismic swarms, rather than by isolated fracturing episodes.
  The Geological Survey has been monitoring St. Helens closely since last Thursday, when swarms of tiny earthquakes were first recorded.
  Archaean and Proterozoic basement terranes are commonly dissected by swarms of Precambrian mafic dykes.
  The July-August 2001 eruption at Etna was heralded by a seismic swarm initiated during the night of 12-13 July.
  The USGS has been monitoring St. Helens closely since Sept. 23, when swarms of tiny earthquakes were first recorded.
  Earthquake swarms in 1998 and 2001 did not result in any surface activity.
  Scientists aren't sure what causes quake swarms.
  So now seismologists are actually recording the swarms of the earthquake activity from the volcano.
  And then we had swarms of earthquakes, which set everybody's nerves on edge.
  The phenomenon surprised experts, who concluded the sequence was an earthquake swarm.
  The most intense swarms of earthquakes detected in the last 10 to 12 years on the far edge of the Juan de Fuca plate could indicate the eruption of magma from the seafloor or an underwater volcano.
4. 1.4Astronomy A large number of minor celestial objects occurring together in space, especially a dense shower of meteors.
  〔天文〕一大群小型天体同时在空中出现（尤指流星雨）
  Example sentencesExamples
  He pointed out an especially thick swarm of meteors.
  The cluster collision is the most powerful ever recorded and a fresh glimpse of the cluster merging process, where great swarms of galaxies smash into one another to form a single galactic structure.
  Since Earth is actually orbiting the Sun through a swarm of solar system debris, the answer has to be yes.
  By month's end it lies less than a degree away from the famous Beehive star cluster, which appears in binoculars as a swarm of points.
  Although he was not the first astronomer to propose such a comet swarm, the as-yet unconfirmed cloud is usually known as the ‘Oort Cloud’.
  Any optimism is, however, tempered by the fact that - should the Shiva hypothesis be true - the next swarm of Oort Cloud comets could even now be speeding towards the inner solar system.

verbswôrmswɔrm

1no object (of insects) move in or form a swarm.
（昆虫）成群地飞
a plague of locusts swarmed across the countryside
Example sentencesExamples
- Bugs swarm around a streetlight while clouds roll across the evening sky.
- A tethered cow is occasionally discovered, smothered in ants, asphyxiated and bleeding internally from where the insects swarmed in through its ears, mouth and nose.
- Locusts swarmed through Cairo earlier this week.
- Flies swarmed in the kitchen, and everything was in total chaos.
- Hungry for the sweet lining beneath the bark, the beetles have swarmed over the trees, overwhelming their normal defence mechanisms.
- These handsome insects swarm out of holes in the ground where they have been hibernating for precisely seventeen years.
- Insects swarm about the damp light of the street-lamps, their buzzings reflected very slightly in the bitumen below your feet.
- The moths swarm together for a moment, then disappear like candle flames going out.
- Thousands of flies have swarmed into Kimberworth over the last few weeks causing residents to put up special fly paper to catch the insects.
- The waters were thick and the forest lush, insect flew and swarmed about the boat; the air hung stiller.
- Yap felt the insects swarming over him, biting and stinging, scraping and clawing, and he realized he had just run out of options.
- Phase change causes the locusts to swarm over vegetation, behavior that has wreaked havoc on crops in Africa and the Middle East for centuries.
- These insect swarms cause massive crop losses across the southern and central United States, costing billions of dollars annually.
- One night millions of insects swarmed around my bungalow.
- Unseen insects chirped and swarmed through the sunwarmed grasses and undergrowth, the razzing of cicadas a continuous chorus in the summer air.
- An enormous dense cloud of the insects swarmed out of their dwelling in angry unison.
- More than 150 passengers were evacuated from a Virgin Voyager train travelling from Newcastle to Cardiff after the insects swarmed through a carriage.
- ‘No smoking in store, sir’ he started as locusts started swarming and gathering above.
- ‘Insects swarm from the filter beds into foliage close by,’ Appleton said.
- If there was no breeze, the insects would swarm in, although cockroaches never needed an excuse.
1. 1.1 (of honeybees, ants, or termites) issue from the nest in large numbers with a newly fertilized queen in order to found new colonies.
  （蜜蜂，蚂蚁，白蚁）分群
  the bees had swarmed and left the hive
  蜜蜂已分群，并离开了蜂巢。
  Example sentencesExamples
  They will also nest and swarm in cars and other vehicles and there's nothing more annoying than getting swarmed by a billion tiny ants while driving.
  And like wild dogs after a wounded buffalo, the ants swarmed over it, their terrible serrated jaws clamped tight or biting, biting, biting.
  I looked around and saw Cliff waving his arms frantically, because he was being swarmed by some local bees.
  During their tests, honeybees swarmed areas where explosive residue was present.
  The word wasp almost immediately conjures up an image of hornets swarming from papery football-shaped nests, or the fierce stings of the common paper wasp.
  When the colonies reproduce through swarming, workers rear a number of new queens, only a few of which will ultimately head a colony.
  Honeybees swarm, using hollows in trees which would otherwise be home to native birds or animals.
  This process is functionally equivalent to swarming in honeybees, but with a longer time scale.
  A bee swarm makes for an alarming sight to the uninformed but swarming bees are not dangerous, only homeless.
  Plagues of bugs, germs and ants swarm through the pages of her books.
  A gentle splash was echoed by the sounds of thousands of silver - blue things swarming the surface.
  Don't stand in any one place too long or the fire ants may swarm all over your feet.
  But for many in the South, the annual emergence of fertile, winged termites swarming furiously to scatter and search for mates isn't one of them.
  A woman working at a computer company bought a piece of chocolate bread for breakfast, and after a few mouthfuls, realized that a horde of black ants was swarming all over her snack.
  In 1948 thousands of grasshoppers swarmed Montreal and outlying districts.
  Hundreds of honeybees swarm around the 3-foot-high wooden hive in the suburban backyard at 33 Kettle St.
  But strict attention has to be paid to swarm control to stop the bees ‘buzzing off’ and loss of the honey crop.
  Honey suckle edged the white picket fence and roses, swarmed by busy bees filled the gardens with paths of white pebbles.
  By way of example, it is suggested that an insecticide is applied to sexually mature male insects so that it spreads to the rest of the population during mating and swarming.
  He had a dream that some children were poking a bee's nest with a stick and that the bees swarmed out and stung his whole body.
2no object, with adverbial Move somewhere in large numbers.
蜂拥
protesters were swarming into the building
抗议者们蜂拥着冲进大楼。
Example sentencesExamples
- Orderlies and staff officers swarmed the buildings, carrying orders to the front-line troops.
- Hundreds of police in riot gear swarmed the area, pushing protesters away from the Garden and into nearby side streets.
- Police and federal agents swarmed in on that building today as part of a joint anti-terror operation.
- With views obscured by buildings, people swarmed on to the roads and headed towards open areas, such as Lendal Bridge and Museum Gardens, blocking the path of motorists and buses.
- Thousands of protesters swarmed the streets of Peshawar, in the north west, shouting anti-American and anti-Pakistani slogans.
- Chaos reigned in the main entranceway as police officers swarmed into the building.
- Clouds of dust and a fearful racket greeted us, and hundreds of workmen swarmed over file building.
- And the caribou swarming around the dumpster outside my apartment building are really, really scaring me.
- People emerged from the main station building and swarmed to the train, so we joined in as best we could.
- Twenty minutes later, All the students were told to stay in their home rooms while police swarmed the building again.
- U.S. forces watched but did not intervene as plunderers swarmed into several government buildings and the National Museum, the report said.
- When they unfurled it dozens of cops swarmed over the protesters, knocking them to the ground and arresting several.
- In what seemed like an unprecedented invasion, the ladybugs, or lady beetles, as they are also known, appeared everywhere, swarming around buildings and trees.
- In South Florida, long lines reappeared at gas stations and shoppers swarmed home building stores and supermarkets.
- Hoarded up in abandoned buildings, the government swarmed around them for weeks, in an attempt to force the Kerberos to stand down.
- As Katrina entered the building, everyone swarmed around her and started asking questions.
- VISUALISE THE scenario of over 1000 children swarming a compact building in the city and spending the whole day playing, eating and chatting.
- The market opens out into a harbour where people swarm everywhere, mending nets and building brightly coloured boats.
- Agents of the secret police swarmed among its buildings and along its thoroughfares like ‘locusts.’
- A buzz of protest swarmed across his men, each too timid to shout over the others.
Synonyms
flock, crowd, throng, stream, surge, flood, seethe, pack, crush
1. 2.1swarm with (of a place) be crowded or overrun with (moving people or things)
  （人或物）密集；云集
  the place was swarming with police
  这个地方警察云集。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Within minutes the area was swarming with police cars and dogs and helicopters.
  Today shocked residents described how they had woken to find their street swarming with police officers.
  The whole area is swarming with police, as is the subway station.
  The hallways swarmed with kids and we were both swallowed up in the crowd.
  The Radisson hotel is swarming with medical crews, police officers.
  The three - tier gallery spanning the sides of the maidan and the raised platform on the east are swarming with exercise freaks.
  Barrio Santa Cruz, the pretty old Jewish quarter, is swarming with budget options, but this charming music-themed hotel is a cut above.
  The rest of York is awash with shoppers swarming with mad carrier bags in the cold.
  Edinburgh is swarming with people every year for more than one reason.
  When he'd anxiously come into work a few days ago, he'd expected the campus to be swarmed with police.
  We got away from it and within minutes the place was swarming with police.
  The police and paramilitary forces arrived and the club field swarmed with khaki-clad security personnel and curious onlookers.
  More police this morning, swarming with cameras on the other side of the street.
  On the way in, the Tube was swarming with teenagers.
  Since the entire Italy is swarming with museums and art, the city of Florence too grounds few wonderful ones.
  The lanes around the Daffodil Lion swarmed with police, blocking all routes to the air base which was about two-and-a-half miles away in the next valley.
  The area had been converted, unsurprisingly, into a crime scene swarming with police.
  But then Vauxhall started swarming with police and before you could work out what was going on, the roads were being closed off.
  The vermicelli, indeed, resembled a tree swarming with ants, while it absorbed the rich sauce like a sponge.
  The trash bins after a holiday weekend, rotting, swarming with flies.
  Synonyms
  be crowded with, be thronged with, be overrun with, be full of, abound in, be teeming with, be bristling with, bristle with, be alive with, be crawling with, be infested with, overflow with, brim with, be prolific in, be abundant in

Phrasal Verbs

swarm up

Climb (something) rapidly by gripping it with one's hands and feet, alternately hauling and pushing oneself upward.
攀；爬
I swarmed up the mast
我爬上了桅杆。
Example sentencesExamples
- Their purpose is to lay down suppressing fire, along with the field guns, which will allow the men in the boats to swarm up the hill in either direction like an army of ants.
- Yes, they've seen them thick enough to swarm up in clouds from their yard and turn their white awnings grey.
- Police then moved the exercise to Stormont, swarming up to the home of the power-sharing government in a train of armoured Land Rovers.
- The path leads through open zones of tussocky grasses, silver birches, and woods, honeysuckle swarms up the pines.
- Men began to swarm up out of the manhole cover behind me, and men erupted from covers and storm drains all over the center of the city.
- They swarmed up the levelled rock blockage, pushed through the gap that Tiffany had blasted, dragging at rock that crumbled at their touch.
- One of the more grandiose images, of a crowd swarming up the mount to hear a sermon from Christ as the sun slowly sets, wasn't planned and came about purely by accident.
- The three sides are decorated with relief mouldings showing Hell, Purgatory and Paradise with people swarming up each surface.
- The kids in the village are swarming up and down my road tonight, setting the dogs barking.
- I remember this from childhood - great clouds of oversized winged insects, swarming up from the pavement cracks and the nooks and crannies in walls.
Synonyms
ascend, mount, scale, scramble up, clamber up, shin up

Origin

Old English swearm (noun), of Germanic origin; related to German Schwarm, probably also to the base of Sanskrit svarati ‘it sounds’.

词汇	swarm
释义	Definition of swarm in English: swarm noun swɔːmswɔrm 1A large or dense group of flying insects. 一大群昆虫（尤指飞行的昆虫） a swarm of locusts 一大群记者。 Example sentencesExamples The Hosta had been ravaged by a swarm of ‘roly-polies,’ or pillbugs. There can be up to 40 billion locusts in one swarm. During one plague in Somalia, the locusts devoured enough food to feed 400,000 people for a whole year. There was a swarm of summer insects flitting through the air in search of the food promised by the flower odors of the fatal garden. Yet everyone is out there mad with joy over a swarm of insects that will eat most every living plant in sight! With a snare of some sort in one and a swarm of buzzing insects in the other, neither of the tunnels looked inviting. Digital noise reduction causes people's faces and clothes to crawl, as though they were covered by a swarm of small insects. An epic struggle between the Genohunters and a swarm of insects continues as the screen fades to black. The visual effect evoked a gentle snowstorm or a swarm of insects, associations which, it must be added, the artist regards as entirely incidental. From schools of fish to a swarm of ants, animals exhibit extraordinary collective behaviour. And even if you have the good luck to be healthy, a swarm of locusts could devour your crops, a tsunami could wash away your family, or a hurricane could blow apart your town. However, the very next day they found a swarm of mature adults very near the surface off Anaa Island. Along the way, we remarked on the strange powdery consistency of the soil and marveled as we were surrounded by a swarm of infinitesimal white insects. Being dinner for a swarm of insects is nobody's idea of a good time. But in October 1988 a swarm of desert locusts crossed the Atlantic traveling from Africa to the Caribbean. Chances are, you've noticed a swarm of these black-and-red insects loitering in sunny spots as the weather turns cool. The whole time he was on top of her, a swarm of tiny insects hanging over his right shoulder, she kept the woods in her peripheral vision. Here they lead a nomadic life, following the insect swarms which provide their principal diet. 1.1 A large number of honeybees that leave a hive en masse with a newly fertilized queen in order to establish a new colony. 离巢的蜂群，分蜂群 Example sentencesExamples He donned a protective suit and used a brush to gather the 4,000-strong swarm into a hive box before re-housing them. As the swarms subside, mated new queens break off their wings and seek underground cavities in which to begin new colonies while the males die. Finally, after perhaps several days of house-hunting, one of the sites gains overwhelming favour and the swarm moves off to start a new hive there. Africanised bees typically attack in swarms that are between three and four times the size of European honey bee swarms, which causes a greater number of stings. When these queens mature into adults, they compete to head a new colony either by leaving with a secondary swarm or by becoming the queen in the established nest site. In 1957 swarms of the Africanized honeybee escaped the quarantine and began to establish colonies. The trade and transportation of queen bees, bees are families and swarms of bees without a certificate of origin and a veterinary certificate would be prohibited under the bill. Back in the US, the Pentagon has announced that it has trained honey bees to sniff out and swarm to explosives instead of flowers. He explained why they swarm and how the queen is the centre of the swarm's activity. Prospective beekeepers need to learn only fundamental skills such as safe handling of bees while collecting honey or when swarms are being transferred to the hives. In 1990, a honey bee swarm unlike any before found in the United States was identified just outside the small south Texas town of Hidalgo. Honey bees rarely swarm away from the hive and only sting if they are antagonised. During summer at Shoalhaven, several new swarms left his property to set up new hives in the bush each day. Synonyms hive, flight, flock, covey 1.2a swarm/swarms of A large number of people or things. 一大群人（或物） a swarm of journalists 一大群记者。 Example sentencesExamples The ball broke among a swarm of backs and forwards and was met by the flying hurl of Red Brian Murphy and then the net. Electron diameters are imprecise, but not because there are swarms of micro-electron-dust, each particle of which is also a swarm of something even smaller. Loup shouted, and a swarm of vehicles and troops charged from the base into the Oppressor line. As a swarm of new dot-com brands try to buy their way to brand recognition, clutter makes it difficult to break out, and it's easy to fritter away advertising dollars. Basso's team swarm around him like worker bees around their Queen, but they are in for a hard day in the saddle. A swarm of birds hopped from the nearby rooftops and sped off into the air. After decisively defeating a swarm of litigants claiming priority of conception he pursued a multitude of ideas and causes. The crowd froze as a swarm of Steamers jerseys surged towards the Canterbury line and the clock ticked into the red a converted try was all that was needed to keep the Ranfurly Shield at home. The opening minutes saw the Trinity goal a swarm of bodies as Emmaus launched several attacks that had Trinity on the back foot. Air flowing into your nose carries with it a swarm of complex organic molecules that get trapped in the mucus-rich lining of the nose's inner recesses. It permeates our affective landscape, impressing itself upon us so thoroughly that our very corporeal existence becomes host to a swarm of signs. At times, Rheingold tries a bit too hard to buttress his cogent observations with academic theories that draw parallels between smart mobs and swarms such as ant colonies. When one set of contestants comprises a swarm of tiny, highly mobile sperm and the other a few large, immotile eggs, there is a certain inevitability about the outcome. In January she had visited Slimbridge, the bird sanctuary on the Severn in Gloucestershire, to witness the famous flights of starlings that swarm there in their tens of thousands before roosting. We made our way among a swarm of bodies, until I was face to face with a woman who was sobbing uninhibitedly. The users' dislike of the application is actually caused by a swarm of tiny usability annoyances. Viropharma stock was one of his calls during this period, and his people piled into it hugely, followed by a swarm of tag-along momentum players. A British aerospace company is now working on a top secret flight system which could allow a pilot to control swarms of unmanned planes from the air. Care would have to be taken to deflect the body intact rather than break it into pieces because a swarm of fragments might be more destructive than a single object. Researchers say a swarm of bouncing, spherical bots the size of baseballs could hop across the red planet to search for life. Synonyms crowd, multitude, horde, host, mob, gang, throng, stream, mass, body, band, army, troop, legion, flock, herd, pack, drove, sea, array, myriad, pile knot, cluster, group 1.3 A series of similar-sized earthquakes occurring together, typically near a volcano. （多指发生在火山附近的）地震群 Example sentencesExamples This value indicates a behaviour strongly controlled by intense seismic swarms, rather than by isolated fracturing episodes. Earthquake swarms in 1998 and 2001 did not result in any surface activity. And then we had swarms of earthquakes, which set everybody's nerves on edge. The most intense swarms of earthquakes detected in the last 10 to 12 years on the far edge of the Juan de Fuca plate could indicate the eruption of magma from the seafloor or an underwater volcano. Though they are unusual, earthquake swarms have happened before in other regions of the UK. Dr Gledhill said swarms of small shallow earthquakes were reasonably common in the Bay, but some of the ones in this swarm were larger than usual, making it about a once-in-a-decade event. Scientists aren't sure what causes quake swarms. The July-August 2001 eruption at Etna was heralded by a seismic swarm initiated during the night of 12-13 July. Similar earthquake swarms were recorded in 1998 and 2001, but no explosion occurred in either year, Pierson said. Archaean and Proterozoic basement terranes are commonly dissected by swarms of Precambrian mafic dykes. The cause and outcome of the earthquake swarm are uncertain at this time. The Geological Survey has been monitoring St. Helens closely since last Thursday, when swarms of tiny earthquakes were first recorded. The USGS has been monitoring St. Helens closely since Sept. 23, when swarms of tiny earthquakes were first recorded. The sequential character is known as an earthquake swarm, a phenomenon of periodic tremors that can continue for months or even a year before quieting. So now seismologists are actually recording the swarms of the earthquake activity from the volcano. The swarm of very small earthquakes was the third and largest such episode of activity since the eruption in May-August, 2003. But Qamar said he was more interested in the swarm of earthquakes than worried by them. In March last year, the region saw a so-called seismic swarm - a series of around 350 small earthquakes, centred on the bulge itself about three miles away from the South Sister. The USGS has been monitoring St. Helens closely since September 23, when swarms of tiny earthquakes were first recorded. The phenomenon surprised experts, who concluded the sequence was an earthquake swarm. 1.4Astronomy A large number of minor celestial objects occurring together in space, especially a dense shower of meteors. 〔天文〕一大群小型天体同时在空中出现（尤指流星雨） Example sentencesExamples By month's end it lies less than a degree away from the famous Beehive star cluster, which appears in binoculars as a swarm of points. The cluster collision is the most powerful ever recorded and a fresh glimpse of the cluster merging process, where great swarms of galaxies smash into one another to form a single galactic structure. Any optimism is, however, tempered by the fact that - should the Shiva hypothesis be true - the next swarm of Oort Cloud comets could even now be speeding towards the inner solar system. Although he was not the first astronomer to propose such a comet swarm, the as-yet unconfirmed cloud is usually known as the ‘Oort Cloud’. He pointed out an especially thick swarm of meteors. Since Earth is actually orbiting the Sun through a swarm of solar system debris, the answer has to be yes. verb swɔːmswɔrm [no object] 1(of flying insects) move in or form a swarm. （昆虫）成群地飞 a plague of locusts swarmed across the countryside Example sentencesExamples Yap felt the insects swarming over him, biting and stinging, scraping and clawing, and he realized he had just run out of options. Thousands of flies have swarmed into Kimberworth over the last few weeks causing residents to put up special fly paper to catch the insects. A tethered cow is occasionally discovered, smothered in ants, asphyxiated and bleeding internally from where the insects swarmed in through its ears, mouth and nose. More than 150 passengers were evacuated from a Virgin Voyager train travelling from Newcastle to Cardiff after the insects swarmed through a carriage. An enormous dense cloud of the insects swarmed out of their dwelling in angry unison. These handsome insects swarm out of holes in the ground where they have been hibernating for precisely seventeen years. Bugs swarm around a streetlight while clouds roll across the evening sky. One night millions of insects swarmed around my bungalow. Phase change causes the locusts to swarm over vegetation, behavior that has wreaked havoc on crops in Africa and the Middle East for centuries. Insects swarm about the damp light of the street-lamps, their buzzings reflected very slightly in the bitumen below your feet. If there was no breeze, the insects would swarm in, although cockroaches never needed an excuse. ‘No smoking in store, sir’ he started as locusts started swarming and gathering above. The waters were thick and the forest lush, insect flew and swarmed about the boat; the air hung stiller. Unseen insects chirped and swarmed through the sunwarmed grasses and undergrowth, the razzing of cicadas a continuous chorus in the summer air. Locusts swarmed through Cairo earlier this week. These insect swarms cause massive crop losses across the southern and central United States, costing billions of dollars annually. Hungry for the sweet lining beneath the bark, the beetles have swarmed over the trees, overwhelming their normal defence mechanisms. Flies swarmed in the kitchen, and everything was in total chaos. ‘Insects swarm from the filter beds into foliage close by,’ Appleton said. The moths swarm together for a moment, then disappear like candle flames going out. 1.1 (of honeybees, ants, or termites) issue from the nest in large numbers in order to mate and found new colonies. （蜜蜂，蚂蚁，白蚁）分群 the bees had swarmed and left the hive 蜜蜂已分群，并离开了蜂巢。 Example sentencesExamples He had a dream that some children were poking a bee's nest with a stick and that the bees swarmed out and stung his whole body. Honeybees swarm, using hollows in trees which would otherwise be home to native birds or animals. I looked around and saw Cliff waving his arms frantically, because he was being swarmed by some local bees. But for many in the South, the annual emergence of fertile, winged termites swarming furiously to scatter and search for mates isn't one of them. Hundreds of honeybees swarm around the 3-foot-high wooden hive in the suburban backyard at 33 Kettle St. During their tests, honeybees swarmed areas where explosive residue was present. Honey suckle edged the white picket fence and roses, swarmed by busy bees filled the gardens with paths of white pebbles. Don't stand in any one place too long or the fire ants may swarm all over your feet. A gentle splash was echoed by the sounds of thousands of silver - blue things swarming the surface. The word wasp almost immediately conjures up an image of hornets swarming from papery football-shaped nests, or the fierce stings of the common paper wasp. Plagues of bugs, germs and ants swarm through the pages of her books. This process is functionally equivalent to swarming in honeybees, but with a longer time scale. By way of example, it is suggested that an insecticide is applied to sexually mature male insects so that it spreads to the rest of the population during mating and swarming. A bee swarm makes for an alarming sight to the uninformed but swarming bees are not dangerous, only homeless. But strict attention has to be paid to swarm control to stop the bees ‘buzzing off’ and loss of the honey crop. They will also nest and swarm in cars and other vehicles and there's nothing more annoying than getting swarmed by a billion tiny ants while driving. When the colonies reproduce through swarming, workers rear a number of new queens, only a few of which will ultimately head a colony. A woman working at a computer company bought a piece of chocolate bread for breakfast, and after a few mouthfuls, realized that a horde of black ants was swarming all over her snack. In 1948 thousands of grasshoppers swarmed Montreal and outlying districts. And like wild dogs after a wounded buffalo, the ants swarmed over it, their terrible serrated jaws clamped tight or biting, biting, biting. 2 Move somewhere in large numbers. 蜂拥 protesters were swarming into the building 抗议者们蜂拥着冲进大楼。 Example sentencesExamples People emerged from the main station building and swarmed to the train, so we joined in as best we could. Twenty minutes later, All the students were told to stay in their home rooms while police swarmed the building again. The market opens out into a harbour where people swarm everywhere, mending nets and building brightly coloured boats. As Katrina entered the building, everyone swarmed around her and started asking questions. U.S. forces watched but did not intervene as plunderers swarmed into several government buildings and the National Museum, the report said. A buzz of protest swarmed across his men, each too timid to shout over the others. VISUALISE THE scenario of over 1000 children swarming a compact building in the city and spending the whole day playing, eating and chatting. And the caribou swarming around the dumpster outside my apartment building are really, really scaring me. Hoarded up in abandoned buildings, the government swarmed around them for weeks, in an attempt to force the Kerberos to stand down. Chaos reigned in the main entranceway as police officers swarmed into the building. With views obscured by buildings, people swarmed on to the roads and headed towards open areas, such as Lendal Bridge and Museum Gardens, blocking the path of motorists and buses. Orderlies and staff officers swarmed the buildings, carrying orders to the front-line troops. In South Florida, long lines reappeared at gas stations and shoppers swarmed home building stores and supermarkets. Hundreds of police in riot gear swarmed the area, pushing protesters away from the Garden and into nearby side streets. When they unfurled it dozens of cops swarmed over the protesters, knocking them to the ground and arresting several. In what seemed like an unprecedented invasion, the ladybugs, or lady beetles, as they are also known, appeared everywhere, swarming around buildings and trees. Agents of the secret police swarmed among its buildings and along its thoroughfares like ‘locusts.’ Clouds of dust and a fearful racket greeted us, and hundreds of workmen swarmed over file building. Police and federal agents swarmed in on that building today as part of a joint anti-terror operation. Thousands of protesters swarmed the streets of Peshawar, in the north west, shouting anti-American and anti-Pakistani slogans. Synonyms flock, crowd, throng, stream, surge, flood, seethe, pack, crush 2.1swarm with Be crowded or overrun with (moving people or things) （人或物）密集；云集 the place was swarming with police 这个地方警察云集。 Example sentencesExamples The police and paramilitary forces arrived and the club field swarmed with khaki-clad security personnel and curious onlookers. On the way in, the Tube was swarming with teenagers. Within minutes the area was swarming with police cars and dogs and helicopters. The vermicelli, indeed, resembled a tree swarming with ants, while it absorbed the rich sauce like a sponge. Today shocked residents described how they had woken to find their street swarming with police officers. The lanes around the Daffodil Lion swarmed with police, blocking all routes to the air base which was about two-and-a-half miles away in the next valley. Since the entire Italy is swarming with museums and art, the city of Florence too grounds few wonderful ones. More police this morning, swarming with cameras on the other side of the street. But then Vauxhall started swarming with police and before you could work out what was going on, the roads were being closed off. We got away from it and within minutes the place was swarming with police. Edinburgh is swarming with people every year for more than one reason. The whole area is swarming with police, as is the subway station. The rest of York is awash with shoppers swarming with mad carrier bags in the cold. Barrio Santa Cruz, the pretty old Jewish quarter, is swarming with budget options, but this charming music-themed hotel is a cut above. The three - tier gallery spanning the sides of the maidan and the raised platform on the east are swarming with exercise freaks. The hallways swarmed with kids and we were both swallowed up in the crowd. The Radisson hotel is swarming with medical crews, police officers. The area had been converted, unsurprisingly, into a crime scene swarming with police. When he'd anxiously come into work a few days ago, he'd expected the campus to be swarmed with police. The trash bins after a holiday weekend, rotting, swarming with flies. Synonyms be crowded with, be thronged with, be overrun with, be full of, abound in, be teeming with, be bristling with, bristle with, be alive with, be crawling with, be infested with, overflow with, brim with, be prolific in, be abundant in informal be thick with, be lousy with Phrasal Verbs swarm up Climb (something) rapidly by gripping it with one's hands and feet, alternately hauling and pushing oneself upwards. 攀；爬 I swarmed up the mast 我爬上了桅杆。 Example sentencesExamples Men began to swarm up out of the manhole cover behind me, and men erupted from covers and storm drains all over the center of the city. The path leads through open zones of tussocky grasses, silver birches, and woods, honeysuckle swarms up the pines. I remember this from childhood - great clouds of oversized winged insects, swarming up from the pavement cracks and the nooks and crannies in walls. The kids in the village are swarming up and down my road tonight, setting the dogs barking. The three sides are decorated with relief mouldings showing Hell, Purgatory and Paradise with people swarming up each surface. Yes, they've seen them thick enough to swarm up in clouds from their yard and turn their white awnings grey. Their purpose is to lay down suppressing fire, along with the field guns, which will allow the men in the boats to swarm up the hill in either direction like an army of ants. They swarmed up the levelled rock blockage, pushed through the gap that Tiffany had blasted, dragging at rock that crumbled at their touch. Police then moved the exercise to Stormont, swarming up to the home of the power-sharing government in a train of armoured Land Rovers. One of the more grandiose images, of a crowd swarming up the mount to hear a sermon from Christ as the sun slowly sets, wasn't planned and came about purely by accident. Synonyms ascend, mount, scale, scramble up, clamber up, shin up Origin Old English swearm (noun), of Germanic origin; related to German Schwarm, probably also to the base of Sanskrit svarati 'it sounds'. Rhymes conform, corm, dorm, form, forme, haulm, lukewarm, Maugham, misinform, norm, outperform, perform, shawm, storm, transform, underperform, warm noun.1 phr.v. Definition of swarm in US English: swarm nounswôrmswɔrm 1A large or dense group of insects, especially flying ones. 一大群昆虫（尤指飞行的昆虫） Example sentencesExamples Along the way, we remarked on the strange powdery consistency of the soil and marveled as we were surrounded by a swarm of infinitesimal white insects. The whole time he was on top of her, a swarm of tiny insects hanging over his right shoulder, she kept the woods in her peripheral vision. With a snare of some sort in one and a swarm of buzzing insects in the other, neither of the tunnels looked inviting. An epic struggle between the Genohunters and a swarm of insects continues as the screen fades to black. From schools of fish to a swarm of ants, animals exhibit extraordinary collective behaviour. Here they lead a nomadic life, following the insect swarms which provide their principal diet. But in October 1988 a swarm of desert locusts crossed the Atlantic traveling from Africa to the Caribbean. However, the very next day they found a swarm of mature adults very near the surface off Anaa Island. Chances are, you've noticed a swarm of these black-and-red insects loitering in sunny spots as the weather turns cool. There can be up to 40 billion locusts in one swarm. During one plague in Somalia, the locusts devoured enough food to feed 400,000 people for a whole year. Being dinner for a swarm of insects is nobody's idea of a good time. Yet everyone is out there mad with joy over a swarm of insects that will eat most every living plant in sight! The visual effect evoked a gentle snowstorm or a swarm of insects, associations which, it must be added, the artist regards as entirely incidental. And even if you have the good luck to be healthy, a swarm of locusts could devour your crops, a tsunami could wash away your family, or a hurricane could blow apart your town. The Hosta had been ravaged by a swarm of ‘roly-polies,’ or pillbugs. Digital noise reduction causes people's faces and clothes to crawl, as though they were covered by a swarm of small insects. There was a swarm of summer insects flitting through the air in search of the food promised by the flower odors of the fatal garden. 1.1 A large number of honeybees that leave a hive en masse with a newly fertilized queen in order to establish a new colony. 离巢的蜂群，分蜂群 Example sentencesExamples When these queens mature into adults, they compete to head a new colony either by leaving with a secondary swarm or by becoming the queen in the established nest site. The trade and transportation of queen bees, bees are families and swarms of bees without a certificate of origin and a veterinary certificate would be prohibited under the bill. He explained why they swarm and how the queen is the centre of the swarm's activity. In 1990, a honey bee swarm unlike any before found in the United States was identified just outside the small south Texas town of Hidalgo. He donned a protective suit and used a brush to gather the 4,000-strong swarm into a hive box before re-housing them. In 1957 swarms of the Africanized honeybee escaped the quarantine and began to establish colonies. During summer at Shoalhaven, several new swarms left his property to set up new hives in the bush each day. Back in the US, the Pentagon has announced that it has trained honey bees to sniff out and swarm to explosives instead of flowers. Africanised bees typically attack in swarms that are between three and four times the size of European honey bee swarms, which causes a greater number of stings. Prospective beekeepers need to learn only fundamental skills such as safe handling of bees while collecting honey or when swarms are being transferred to the hives. Finally, after perhaps several days of house-hunting, one of the sites gains overwhelming favour and the swarm moves off to start a new hive there. Honey bees rarely swarm away from the hive and only sting if they are antagonised. As the swarms subside, mated new queens break off their wings and seek underground cavities in which to begin new colonies while the males die. Synonyms hive, flight, flock, covey 1.2a swarm/swarms of A large number of people or things. 一大群人（或物） a swarm of journalists 一大群记者。 Example sentencesExamples Care would have to be taken to deflect the body intact rather than break it into pieces because a swarm of fragments might be more destructive than a single object. Researchers say a swarm of bouncing, spherical bots the size of baseballs could hop across the red planet to search for life. At times, Rheingold tries a bit too hard to buttress his cogent observations with academic theories that draw parallels between smart mobs and swarms such as ant colonies. In January she had visited Slimbridge, the bird sanctuary on the Severn in Gloucestershire, to witness the famous flights of starlings that swarm there in their tens of thousands before roosting. Electron diameters are imprecise, but not because there are swarms of micro-electron-dust, each particle of which is also a swarm of something even smaller. A British aerospace company is now working on a top secret flight system which could allow a pilot to control swarms of unmanned planes from the air. A swarm of birds hopped from the nearby rooftops and sped off into the air. When one set of contestants comprises a swarm of tiny, highly mobile sperm and the other a few large, immotile eggs, there is a certain inevitability about the outcome. The ball broke among a swarm of backs and forwards and was met by the flying hurl of Red Brian Murphy and then the net. It permeates our affective landscape, impressing itself upon us so thoroughly that our very corporeal existence becomes host to a swarm of signs. The users' dislike of the application is actually caused by a swarm of tiny usability annoyances. After decisively defeating a swarm of litigants claiming priority of conception he pursued a multitude of ideas and causes. Basso's team swarm around him like worker bees around their Queen, but they are in for a hard day in the saddle. The crowd froze as a swarm of Steamers jerseys surged towards the Canterbury line and the clock ticked into the red a converted try was all that was needed to keep the Ranfurly Shield at home. As a swarm of new dot-com brands try to buy their way to brand recognition, clutter makes it difficult to break out, and it's easy to fritter away advertising dollars. The opening minutes saw the Trinity goal a swarm of bodies as Emmaus launched several attacks that had Trinity on the back foot. Viropharma stock was one of his calls during this period, and his people piled into it hugely, followed by a swarm of tag-along momentum players. We made our way among a swarm of bodies, until I was face to face with a woman who was sobbing uninhibitedly. Loup shouted, and a swarm of vehicles and troops charged from the base into the Oppressor line. Air flowing into your nose carries with it a swarm of complex organic molecules that get trapped in the mucus-rich lining of the nose's inner recesses. Synonyms crowd, multitude, horde, host, mob, gang, throng, stream, mass, body, band, army, troop, legion, flock, herd, pack, drove, sea, array, myriad, pile 1.3 A series of similar-sized earthquakes occurring together, typically near a volcano. （多指发生在火山附近的）地震群 Example sentencesExamples Dr Gledhill said swarms of small shallow earthquakes were reasonably common in the Bay, but some of the ones in this swarm were larger than usual, making it about a once-in-a-decade event. The swarm of very small earthquakes was the third and largest such episode of activity since the eruption in May-August, 2003. The cause and outcome of the earthquake swarm are uncertain at this time. The sequential character is known as an earthquake swarm, a phenomenon of periodic tremors that can continue for months or even a year before quieting. The USGS has been monitoring St. Helens closely since September 23, when swarms of tiny earthquakes were first recorded. But Qamar said he was more interested in the swarm of earthquakes than worried by them. In March last year, the region saw a so-called seismic swarm - a series of around 350 small earthquakes, centred on the bulge itself about three miles away from the South Sister. Though they are unusual, earthquake swarms have happened before in other regions of the UK. Similar earthquake swarms were recorded in 1998 and 2001, but no explosion occurred in either year, Pierson said. This value indicates a behaviour strongly controlled by intense seismic swarms, rather than by isolated fracturing episodes. The Geological Survey has been monitoring St. Helens closely since last Thursday, when swarms of tiny earthquakes were first recorded. Archaean and Proterozoic basement terranes are commonly dissected by swarms of Precambrian mafic dykes. The July-August 2001 eruption at Etna was heralded by a seismic swarm initiated during the night of 12-13 July. The USGS has been monitoring St. Helens closely since Sept. 23, when swarms of tiny earthquakes were first recorded. Earthquake swarms in 1998 and 2001 did not result in any surface activity. Scientists aren't sure what causes quake swarms. So now seismologists are actually recording the swarms of the earthquake activity from the volcano. And then we had swarms of earthquakes, which set everybody's nerves on edge. The phenomenon surprised experts, who concluded the sequence was an earthquake swarm. The most intense swarms of earthquakes detected in the last 10 to 12 years on the far edge of the Juan de Fuca plate could indicate the eruption of magma from the seafloor or an underwater volcano. 1.4Astronomy A large number of minor celestial objects occurring together in space, especially a dense shower of meteors. 〔天文〕一大群小型天体同时在空中出现（尤指流星雨） Example sentencesExamples He pointed out an especially thick swarm of meteors. The cluster collision is the most powerful ever recorded and a fresh glimpse of the cluster merging process, where great swarms of galaxies smash into one another to form a single galactic structure. Since Earth is actually orbiting the Sun through a swarm of solar system debris, the answer has to be yes. By month's end it lies less than a degree away from the famous Beehive star cluster, which appears in binoculars as a swarm of points. Although he was not the first astronomer to propose such a comet swarm, the as-yet unconfirmed cloud is usually known as the ‘Oort Cloud’. Any optimism is, however, tempered by the fact that - should the Shiva hypothesis be true - the next swarm of Oort Cloud comets could even now be speeding towards the inner solar system. verbswôrmswɔrm 1no object (of insects) move in or form a swarm. （昆虫）成群地飞 a plague of locusts swarmed across the countryside Example sentencesExamples Bugs swarm around a streetlight while clouds roll across the evening sky. A tethered cow is occasionally discovered, smothered in ants, asphyxiated and bleeding internally from where the insects swarmed in through its ears, mouth and nose. Locusts swarmed through Cairo earlier this week. Flies swarmed in the kitchen, and everything was in total chaos. Hungry for the sweet lining beneath the bark, the beetles have swarmed over the trees, overwhelming their normal defence mechanisms. These handsome insects swarm out of holes in the ground where they have been hibernating for precisely seventeen years. Insects swarm about the damp light of the street-lamps, their buzzings reflected very slightly in the bitumen below your feet. The moths swarm together for a moment, then disappear like candle flames going out. Thousands of flies have swarmed into Kimberworth over the last few weeks causing residents to put up special fly paper to catch the insects. The waters were thick and the forest lush, insect flew and swarmed about the boat; the air hung stiller. Yap felt the insects swarming over him, biting and stinging, scraping and clawing, and he realized he had just run out of options. Phase change causes the locusts to swarm over vegetation, behavior that has wreaked havoc on crops in Africa and the Middle East for centuries. These insect swarms cause massive crop losses across the southern and central United States, costing billions of dollars annually. One night millions of insects swarmed around my bungalow. Unseen insects chirped and swarmed through the sunwarmed grasses and undergrowth, the razzing of cicadas a continuous chorus in the summer air. An enormous dense cloud of the insects swarmed out of their dwelling in angry unison. More than 150 passengers were evacuated from a Virgin Voyager train travelling from Newcastle to Cardiff after the insects swarmed through a carriage. ‘No smoking in store, sir’ he started as locusts started swarming and gathering above. ‘Insects swarm from the filter beds into foliage close by,’ Appleton said. If there was no breeze, the insects would swarm in, although cockroaches never needed an excuse. 1.1 (of honeybees, ants, or termites) issue from the nest in large numbers with a newly fertilized queen in order to found new colonies. （蜜蜂，蚂蚁，白蚁）分群 the bees had swarmed and left the hive 蜜蜂已分群，并离开了蜂巢。 Example sentencesExamples They will also nest and swarm in cars and other vehicles and there's nothing more annoying than getting swarmed by a billion tiny ants while driving. And like wild dogs after a wounded buffalo, the ants swarmed over it, their terrible serrated jaws clamped tight or biting, biting, biting. I looked around and saw Cliff waving his arms frantically, because he was being swarmed by some local bees. During their tests, honeybees swarmed areas where explosive residue was present. The word wasp almost immediately conjures up an image of hornets swarming from papery football-shaped nests, or the fierce stings of the common paper wasp. When the colonies reproduce through swarming, workers rear a number of new queens, only a few of which will ultimately head a colony. Honeybees swarm, using hollows in trees which would otherwise be home to native birds or animals. This process is functionally equivalent to swarming in honeybees, but with a longer time scale. A bee swarm makes for an alarming sight to the uninformed but swarming bees are not dangerous, only homeless. Plagues of bugs, germs and ants swarm through the pages of her books. A gentle splash was echoed by the sounds of thousands of silver - blue things swarming the surface. Don't stand in any one place too long or the fire ants may swarm all over your feet. But for many in the South, the annual emergence of fertile, winged termites swarming furiously to scatter and search for mates isn't one of them. A woman working at a computer company bought a piece of chocolate bread for breakfast, and after a few mouthfuls, realized that a horde of black ants was swarming all over her snack. In 1948 thousands of grasshoppers swarmed Montreal and outlying districts. Hundreds of honeybees swarm around the 3-foot-high wooden hive in the suburban backyard at 33 Kettle St. But strict attention has to be paid to swarm control to stop the bees ‘buzzing off’ and loss of the honey crop. Honey suckle edged the white picket fence and roses, swarmed by busy bees filled the gardens with paths of white pebbles. By way of example, it is suggested that an insecticide is applied to sexually mature male insects so that it spreads to the rest of the population during mating and swarming. He had a dream that some children were poking a bee's nest with a stick and that the bees swarmed out and stung his whole body. 2no object, with adverbial Move somewhere in large numbers. 蜂拥 protesters were swarming into the building 抗议者们蜂拥着冲进大楼。 Example sentencesExamples Orderlies and staff officers swarmed the buildings, carrying orders to the front-line troops. Hundreds of police in riot gear swarmed the area, pushing protesters away from the Garden and into nearby side streets. Police and federal agents swarmed in on that building today as part of a joint anti-terror operation. With views obscured by buildings, people swarmed on to the roads and headed towards open areas, such as Lendal Bridge and Museum Gardens, blocking the path of motorists and buses. Thousands of protesters swarmed the streets of Peshawar, in the north west, shouting anti-American and anti-Pakistani slogans. Chaos reigned in the main entranceway as police officers swarmed into the building. Clouds of dust and a fearful racket greeted us, and hundreds of workmen swarmed over file building. And the caribou swarming around the dumpster outside my apartment building are really, really scaring me. People emerged from the main station building and swarmed to the train, so we joined in as best we could. Twenty minutes later, All the students were told to stay in their home rooms while police swarmed the building again. U.S. forces watched but did not intervene as plunderers swarmed into several government buildings and the National Museum, the report said. When they unfurled it dozens of cops swarmed over the protesters, knocking them to the ground and arresting several. In what seemed like an unprecedented invasion, the ladybugs, or lady beetles, as they are also known, appeared everywhere, swarming around buildings and trees. In South Florida, long lines reappeared at gas stations and shoppers swarmed home building stores and supermarkets. Hoarded up in abandoned buildings, the government swarmed around them for weeks, in an attempt to force the Kerberos to stand down. As Katrina entered the building, everyone swarmed around her and started asking questions. VISUALISE THE scenario of over 1000 children swarming a compact building in the city and spending the whole day playing, eating and chatting. The market opens out into a harbour where people swarm everywhere, mending nets and building brightly coloured boats. Agents of the secret police swarmed among its buildings and along its thoroughfares like ‘locusts.’ A buzz of protest swarmed across his men, each too timid to shout over the others. Synonyms flock, crowd, throng, stream, surge, flood, seethe, pack, crush 2.1swarm with (of a place) be crowded or overrun with (moving people or things) （人或物）密集；云集 the place was swarming with police 这个地方警察云集。 Example sentencesExamples Within minutes the area was swarming with police cars and dogs and helicopters. Today shocked residents described how they had woken to find their street swarming with police officers. The whole area is swarming with police, as is the subway station. The hallways swarmed with kids and we were both swallowed up in the crowd. The Radisson hotel is swarming with medical crews, police officers. The three - tier gallery spanning the sides of the maidan and the raised platform on the east are swarming with exercise freaks. Barrio Santa Cruz, the pretty old Jewish quarter, is swarming with budget options, but this charming music-themed hotel is a cut above. The rest of York is awash with shoppers swarming with mad carrier bags in the cold. Edinburgh is swarming with people every year for more than one reason. When he'd anxiously come into work a few days ago, he'd expected the campus to be swarmed with police. We got away from it and within minutes the place was swarming with police. The police and paramilitary forces arrived and the club field swarmed with khaki-clad security personnel and curious onlookers. More police this morning, swarming with cameras on the other side of the street. On the way in, the Tube was swarming with teenagers. Since the entire Italy is swarming with museums and art, the city of Florence too grounds few wonderful ones. The lanes around the Daffodil Lion swarmed with police, blocking all routes to the air base which was about two-and-a-half miles away in the next valley. The area had been converted, unsurprisingly, into a crime scene swarming with police. But then Vauxhall started swarming with police and before you could work out what was going on, the roads were being closed off. The vermicelli, indeed, resembled a tree swarming with ants, while it absorbed the rich sauce like a sponge. The trash bins after a holiday weekend, rotting, swarming with flies. Synonyms be crowded with, be thronged with, be overrun with, be full of, abound in, be teeming with, be bristling with, bristle with, be alive with, be crawling with, be infested with, overflow with, brim with, be prolific in, be abundant in Phrasal Verbs swarm up Climb (something) rapidly by gripping it with one's hands and feet, alternately hauling and pushing oneself upward. 攀；爬 I swarmed up the mast 我爬上了桅杆。 Example sentencesExamples Their purpose is to lay down suppressing fire, along with the field guns, which will allow the men in the boats to swarm up the hill in either direction like an army of ants. Yes, they've seen them thick enough to swarm up in clouds from their yard and turn their white awnings grey. Police then moved the exercise to Stormont, swarming up to the home of the power-sharing government in a train of armoured Land Rovers. The path leads through open zones of tussocky grasses, silver birches, and woods, honeysuckle swarms up the pines. Men began to swarm up out of the manhole cover behind me, and men erupted from covers and storm drains all over the center of the city. They swarmed up the levelled rock blockage, pushed through the gap that Tiffany had blasted, dragging at rock that crumbled at their touch. One of the more grandiose images, of a crowd swarming up the mount to hear a sermon from Christ as the sun slowly sets, wasn't planned and came about purely by accident. The three sides are decorated with relief mouldings showing Hell, Purgatory and Paradise with people swarming up each surface. The kids in the village are swarming up and down my road tonight, setting the dogs barking. I remember this from childhood - great clouds of oversized winged insects, swarming up from the pavement cracks and the nooks and crannies in walls. Synonyms ascend, mount, scale, scramble up, clamber up, shin up Origin Old English swearm (noun), of Germanic origin; related to German Schwarm, probably also to the base of Sanskrit svarati ‘it sounds’. noun.1 phr.v.
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