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overswarms

overswarms is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 overswarms

What is overswarms the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Overswarms is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overswarm.

Words near overswarms in the dictionary

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

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