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overswarming

overswarming is the present participle and gerund of overswarm.

Meaning of overswarm

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

Questions about overswarming

What is overswarming the present participle and gerund of?
Overswarming is the present participle and gerund of overswarm.

Words near overswarming in the dictionary

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

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