Usually means: Groups of moving animals or insects.
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  1. swarms: Merriam-Webster
  2. swarms: Collins English Dictionary
  3. swarms: Vocabulary.com
  4. Swarms, swarms: Wordnik
  5. swarms: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. swarms: Wiktionary
  7. swarms: Dictionary.com
  8. swarms: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. swarms: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. swarms: Legal dictionary

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  1. swarms: Encyclopedia

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  2. swarms: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (swarm)

noun:  A large number of insects, especially when in motion or (for bees) migrating to a new colony.
noun:  A mass of people, animals or things in motion or turmoil.
noun:  (computing) A group of nodes sharing the same torrent in a BitTorrent network.
noun:  (seismology) A number of small earthquakes (or other seismic events) occurring, with no clear cause, in a specific area within a relatively short space of time.
verb:  (intransitive) To move as a swarm.
verb:  (intransitive) To teem, or be overrun with insects, people, etc.
verb:  (transitive) To fill a place as a swarm.
verb:  (transitive) To overwhelm as by an opposing army.
verb:  To climb by gripping with arms and legs alternately.
verb:  To breed multitudes.
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