noun
- A moving crowd.
- A group of many things in the air or on the ground.
- usage: "a swarm of insects obscured the light"; "clouds of blossoms"; "it discharged a cloud of spores"
- synonyms: cloud
verb
- Be teeming, be abuzz.
- usage: "The garden was swarming with bees"; "The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen"; "her mind pullulated with worries"
- Move in large numbers.
- usage: "people were pouring out of the theater"; "beggars pullulated in the plaza"
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