Definition: swarming

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

swarming
     adj 1: abundantly filled with especially living things; "the Third
            World's teeming millions"; "the teeming boulevard";
            "harried by swarming rats" [syn: teeming]
     2: (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" [syn: herding, swarming,
         social]
     3: filled by being spread over; sometimes used in combination;
        "the foe-swarming field"

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Swarm \Swarm\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Swarmed; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Swarming.]
   1. To collect, and depart from a hive by flight in a body; --
      said of bees; as, bees swarm in warm, clear days in
      summer.

   2. To appear or collect in a crowd; to throng together; to
      congregate in a multitude. --Chaucer.

   3. To be crowded; to be thronged with a multitude of beings
      in motion.

            Every place swarms with soldiers.     --Spenser.

   4. To abound; to be filled (with). --Atterbury.

   5. To breed multitudes.

            Not so thick swarmed once the soil Bedropped with
            blood of Gorgon.                      --Milton.