2. Adjective. overrun with moving objects or beings ¹
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Definition of Aswarm
1. swarming [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aswarm
Literary usage of Aswarm
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Eastern Standard Tribe by Cory Doctorow (2005)
"The parking lot is aswarm with people, fire engines and ambulances. There's a
siren going off somewhere down in the bowels of the sanatorium, ..."
2. Trukese-English Dictionary =: Pwpwuken Tettenin Fóós, Chuuk-Ingenes by Ward Hunt Goodenough, Hiroshi Sugita (1990)
"lead astray, make lose track, make confused, cause to go wrong, divert. aswarm
... be aswarm or swarming with tiny stinging ants. at: <?-i(pref. ..."
3. The Photographic History of the Civil War ...: Thousands of Scenes by Francis Trevelyan Miller, Robert Sampson Lanier (1911)
"Above it the river was aswarm with Federal gunboats; below it and along the
Missouri shore was Pope's army. Southward was Reelfoot Lake, and eastward were ..."
4. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"... his lot transcends, Who, seen on earth for briefest while, Thither returns
from whence he came. For with its fluttering follies all aswarm, ..."
5. The Bookman (1907)
"The room seemed aswarm with white faces and tossing arms, and there was a continuous
roar like that of the wind at night. Captain Ranald could be seen ..."
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