swarm

swarm is a 5-letter English word with 14 senses as intransitive verb, noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. See Shin. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 14 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. See Shin.
2. noun. A large number or mass of small animals or insects, especially when in motion.
3. noun. 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.
4. noun. Hence, any great number or multitude, as of people in motion, or sometimes of inanimate objects; as, a swarm of meteorites.
5. intransitive verb. To collect, and depart from a hive by flight in a body; -- said of bees; as, bees swarm in warm, clear days in summer.
6. intransitive verb. To appear or collect in a crowd; to throng together; to congregate in a multitude.
7. intransitive verb. To be crowded; to be thronged with a multitude of beings in motion.
8. intransitive verb. To abound; to be filled (with).
9. intransitive verb. To breed multitudes.
10. transitive verb. To crowd or throng.
11. noun. a group of many things in the air or on the ground

    "a swarm of insects obscured the light"

    "clouds of blossoms"

    Synonyms: cloud

12. noun. a moving crowd

    Synonyms: drove, horde

13. verb. move in large numbers

    "people were pouring out of the theater"

    "beggars pullulated in the plaza"

    Synonyms: pour, pullulate, stream, teem

14. verb. be teeming, be abuzz

    "The garden was swarming with bees"

    "The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen"

    Synonyms: pullulate, teem

Synonyms

cloud, drove, horde, pour, pullulate, stream, teem

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in swarm:

warms

Common word forms

swarms, swarmed, swarmer, swarming

Words from these letters

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