English Dictionary

swarm

/swɔɹm/

verb

(intransitive) To move as a swarm. / (intransitive) To teem, or be overrun with insects, people, etc. / (transitive) To fill a place as a swarm. / (transitive) To overwhelm as by an opposing army.

The bees swarm around the hive.

意味（1）

(intransitive) To move as a swarm.

There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. Mail bags, so I understand, are being put on board. Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors.

意味（2）

(intransitive) To teem, or be overrun with insects, people, etc.

Every place swarming with soldiers.

意味（3）

(transitive) To fill a place as a swarm.

意味（4）

(transitive) To overwhelm as by an opposing army.

So, yeah. The overall conclusion of the big gunfight being that, if Yamato is able to tackle the Colorados early, then the Japanese probably have a, maybe a sixty-to-sixty-five-percent chance of pulling this off... although you say pulling it off, it's more a case of the Japanese are the last battleship standing; they tend to then just get swarmed by angry Fletchers[…]

意味（5）

To climb by gripping with arms and legs alternately.

At the top was placed a piece of money, as a prize for those who could swarm up and seize it.

意味（6）

To breed multitudes.

Not ſo thick ſwarm'd once the Soil / Bedropt with blood of Gorgon,