Thesaurus / swarming
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synonyms for swarming
- alive
- effective
- operating
- flowing
- functioning
- going
- mobile
- movable
- operative
- progressive
- pushing
- rapid
- rolling
- running
- rushing
- rustling
- shifting
- simmering
- speeding
- streaming
- traveling
- turning
- walking
- working
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- full
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- clean
- close
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- mobbed
- overflowing
- stuffed
- thronged
- awash
- brimful
- chock-full
- dense
- elbow-to-elbow
- filled to the rafters
- fit to bust
- full house
- full up
- lousy with
- mob scene
- sardined
- sold out
- SRO
- standing room only
- stiff with
- thick
- thickset
- tight
- topped off
- up to here
- up to the hilt
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- full to the gills
- packed like sardines
- serried
- to the roof
- tumid
- up to the hilt
- up to the rafters
- wall-to-wall
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- sufficient
- unlimited
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- excessive
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- aplenty
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- crawling with
- dime a dozen
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- dime a dozen
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antonyms for swarming
MOST RELEVANT
- open
- sparse
- thin
- loose
- attenuated
- clear
- diluted
- intelligent
- reasonable
- sensible
- slight
- smart
- uncrowded
- unfriendly
- unsociable
- watery
- wise
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How to use swarming in a sentence
Fancy that enormous shell dropping suddenly out of the blue on to a ship's deck swarming with troops!
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTONThe Hotel de Ville was the appointed place of rendezvous for the swarming multitudes.
MADAME ROLAND, MAKERS OF HISTORYJOHN S. C. ABBOTTHe was soon back, and we stood by the inner fence and watched the silent lightning do its awful work upon that swarming host.
A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT, COMPLETEMARK TWAIN (SAMUEL CLEMENS)Frightened farmers ride in from all directions with the intelligence that the country is swarming with Yankees.
THE BOYS OF '61CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN.The rebels began swarming out of their works and moving forward into the woods.
SI KLEGG, BOOK 2 (OF 6)JOHN MCELROYThe window was smashed, and the mob was seen swarming toward it.
FRANK MERRIWELL'S BRAVERYBURT L. STANDISHLike a body of ants swarming on to a victim they had come from the road to the store.
COLONIAL BORNG. FIRTH SCOTTWant the whole damned town swarming over us, with torch and kris?
CURSEDGEORGE ALLAN ENGLANDImagine this place swarming with the sort of folks Jake Curtis would attract.
THE MISSING FORMULAMILDRED A. WIRT, AKA ANN WIRTAlready it seemed the room was swarming with pressing, curious, excited native servants.
THE TIGRESSANNE WARNERWORDS RELATED TO SWARMING
- alive
- astir
- at work
- bustling
- effective
- efficacious
- exertive
- flowing
- functioning
- going
- hasty
- impelling
- in force
- in play
- in process
- mobile
- movable
- moving
- operating
- operative
- progressive
- pushing
- rapid
- restless
- rolling
- running
- rushing
- rustling
- shifting
- simmering
- speeding
- speedy
- streaming
- swarming
- traveling
- turning
- walking
- working
- SRO
- awash
- brimful
- brimming
- chock-full
- clean
- close
- compact
- crammed
- cramped
- crushed
- dense
- elbow-to-elbow
- filled to the rafters
- fit to bust
- full
- full house
- full up
- huddled
- jam-packed
- jammed
- loaded
- lousy with
- massed
- mob scene
- mobbed
- overflowing
- packed
- populous
- sardined
- sold out
- standing room only
- stiff with
- stuffed
- swarming
- teeming
- thick
- thickset
- thronged
- tight
- topped off
- up to here
- up to the hilt
- wall-to-wall
- alive
- astir
- at work
- bustling
- effective
- efficacious
- exertive
- flowing
- functioning
- going
- hasty
- impelling
- in force
- in play
- in process
- mobile
- movable
- moving
- operating
- operative
- progressive
- pushing
- rapid
- restless
- rolling
- running
- rushing
- rustling
- shifting
- simmering
- speeding
- speedy
- streaming
- swarming
- traveling
- turning
- walking
- working
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.