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overswarm

overswarm verb: to swarm over; to overrun.

Verb

overswarm (third-person singular simple present overswarms, present participle overswarming, simple past and past participle overswarmed)

  1. (transitive) To swarm over; to overrun.
    • Let America add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada; let the English overswarm all India, and hang out their blazing banner from the sun[…]1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC

Forms of overswarm

third-person singular presentoverswarms
present participleoverswarming
past participleoverswarmed
pastoverswarmed

Origin of overswarm

From over- + swarm.

Questions about overswarm

What does overswarm mean?
Overswarm means to swarm over; to overrun.
What part of speech is overswarm?
Overswarm is a verb.
What is the past tense of overswarm?
The past tense of overswarm is overswarmed.

Words near overswarm in the dictionary

  1. oversuspension
  2. oversuspicious
  3. oversuspiciously
  4. oversustained
  5. overswam
  6. overswarm
  7. overswarmed
  8. overswarming
  9. overswarms
  10. oversway
  11. overswayed

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