overswarm

English

Etymology

over- +‎ swarm

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 […] — Herman Melville, Moby-Dick.

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