upswarm

English

Etymology

up- +‎ swarm

Verb

upswarm (third-person singular simple present upswarms, present participle upswarming, simple past and past participle upswarmed)

  1. (transitive) To rise in a swarm.
  2. (intransitive) To cause to rise in a swarm.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for upswarm in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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