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Meaning of swarm

- To climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. See Shin.
- A large number or mass of small animals or insects, especially when in motion.
- Especially, a great number of honeybees which emigrate from a hive at once, and seek new lodgings under the direction of a queen; a like body of bees settled permanently in a hive.
- Hence, any great number or multitude, as of people in motion, or sometimes of inanimate objects; as, a swarm of meteorites.
- To collect, and depart from a hive by flight in a body; -- said of bees; as, bees swarm in warm, clear days in summer.
- To appear or collect in a crowd; to throng together; to congregate in a multitude.
- To be crowded; to be thronged with a multitude of beings in motion.
- To abound; to be filled (with).
- To breed multitudes.
- To crowd or throng.

Crossword clue for swarm

- A body of bees
- Be alive
- Buzzing cloud
- Cloud of insects
- group of bees
- Group of insects
- Horde
- Horde of wasps
- Large group of bees
- Mass of bees
- Multitude of winged stingers
- Somehow warms to group of bees
- Teem
- Throng