aswarm

American  

[uh-swawrm] / əˈswɔrm /

adjective

1. filled, as by objects, organisms, etc., especially in motion; teeming (usually used predicatively).

   The garden was aswarm with bees; a night sky aswarm with stars.

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aswarm British  

/ əˈswɔːm /

adjective

1. (postpositive) filled, esp with moving things; swarming

   flower beds aswarm with bees

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Etymology

Origin of aswarm

First recorded in 1880–85; a- ¹ + swarm ¹

Example Sentences

Washington is aswarm with an army of young, eager and ambitious staffers who possess more in the way of swagger and attitude than good sense.

From Los Angeles Times

The place was aswarm with kindred spirits and budding daredevils.

From New York Times

“The palace is a petri dish aswarm with familiar pathogens of egoism, cruelty and greed. A sentimental soul might wish for a glimpse of something else, but at the same time it’s hard to say that anything is missing from this tableau, which is also a devastating, flattering and strangely faithful mirror.”

From New York Times

The palace is a petri dish aswarm with familiar pathogens of egoism, cruelty and greed.

From New York Times

The women and children are not exempt, and the heart cannot be moved to greater pity than to see a child, stubby of leg, working his way along an aisle of mattresses, his lips aswarm with sores, as the infant Plato is said to have drawn bees to his mouth by the sweetness of his breath.

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