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Adjective swarming has 3 senses
- teeming, swarming - abundantly filled with especially living things; "the Third World's teeming millions"; "the teeming boulevard"; "harried by swarming rats"
Antonym: scarce (indirect, via abundant)
- herding, swarming, social - (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"
Antonym: ungregarious (indirect, via gregarious)
- swarming - filled by being spread over; sometimes used in combination; "the foe-swarming field"
Antonym: empty (indirect, via full)
Verb swarm has 2 senses
- teem, pullulate, swarm - be teeming, be abuzz; "The garden was swarming with bees"; "The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen"; "her mind pullulated with worries"
--1 is one way to hum, buzz, seethe
Sample sentence:
The streets swarm with crowds
- pour, swarm, stream, teem, pullulate - move in large numbers; "people were pouring out of the theater"; "beggars pullulated in the plaza"
--2 is one way to crowd, crowd together
Sample sentence:
The crowds swarm in the streets
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