aswarm

[ uh-swawrm ]

adjective

1. filled, as by objects, organisms, etc., especially in motion; teeming (usually used predicatively):

   The garden was aswarm with bees; a night sky aswarm with stars.

aswarm

/ əˈswɔːm /

adjective

1. postpositive filled, esp with moving things; swarming

   flower beds aswarm with bees

Word History and Origins

Origin of aswarm¹

First recorded in 1880–85; a- ¹ + swarm ¹

Example Sentences

Washington is aswarm with an army of young, eager and ambitious staffers who possess more in the way of swagger and attitude than good sense.

From Los Angeles Times

In the heart of the Kasbah, opposite the shop of a honey merchant aswarm with bees, Omar showed me a great hole in the otherwise tightly packed buildings, tiled rooms open to the sky, the unrepaired blast area of French bombs.

From Washington Post

The place was aswarm with kindred spirits and budding daredevils.

From New York Times

“The palace is a petri dish aswarm with familiar pathogens of egoism, cruelty and greed. A sentimental soul might wish for a glimpse of something else, but at the same time it’s hard to say that anything is missing from this tableau, which is also a devastating, flattering and strangely faithful mirror.”

From New York Times

The palace is a petri dish aswarm with familiar pathogens of egoism, cruelty and greed.

From New York Times