swarm

US: /ˈswɔɹm/
UK: /swˈɔːm/


English Vietnamese dictionary


swarm /swɔ:m/
  • danh từ
    • đàn, đám, bầy
    • đàn ong chia tổ
    • nội động từ
      • (+ round, about, over...) di chuyển thành đàn, di chuyển thành bầy
      • tụ lại để chia tổ (ong)
      • họp lại thành đàn
      • (+ with) đầy, nhung nhúc
        • a place swarming with fleas: một nơi nhung nhúc những bọ chét
    • động từ
      • trèo (cây), leo (dây) ((cũng) swarm up)

    Advanced English dictionary


    noun, verb
    + noun
    ~ (of sth)
    1 a large group of insects, especially bees, moving together in the same direction: a swarm of bees / locusts / flies
    2 a large group of people, especially when they are all moving quickly in the same direction
    + verb [V]
    1 [+adv./prep.] (often disapproving) (of people, animals, etc.) to move around in a large group: Tourists were swarming all over the island.
    2 (of bees and other flying insects) to move around together in a large group, looking for a place to live
    Phrasal Verbs: swarm with sb/sth to be full of people or things: The capital city is swarming with police.

    Thesaurus dictionary


    n.
    1 throng, horde, army, host, multitude, hive, herd, mob, mass, drove, flood, stream, cloud, flock, pack, shoal, bunch:
    Swarms of people showed up for our garden party.
    v.
    2 throng, mass, crowd, congregate, flock, gather, flood, stream, flow:
    The fans swarmed round the rock group.
    3 swarm with.
    Often, be swarming with. crawl with, abound in or with, throng with, teem with, burst with, bristle with, be overrun with:
    In two minutes the place was swarming with police.

    Concise English dictionary


    swarms|swarmed|swarmingswɔrm /swɔːm
    noun
    +a moving crowd
    +a group of many insects
    verb
    +be teeming, be abuzz
    +move in large numbers