aswarm

Adjective

aswarm (comparative more aswarm, superlative most aswarm)

1. Filled or overrun (with moving objects or beings).
   • The mountain where thy Muse’s feet made warm
     Those lawns that revelled with her dance divine
     Shines yet with fire as it was wont to shine
     From tossing torches round the dance aswarm.1882, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets, “Ben Jonson,” in Tristram of Lyonesse, and other poems, Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1904, p. 309
   • The juniors hurried out like bees aswarm, asking no questions, clattered up the staircase, and added themselves to the embroilment.1899 February, Rudyard Kipling, “The Impressionists”, in Stalky & Co., London: Macmillan & Co., published 1899, →OCLC, page 107

   Synonyms:

   swarming