upswarm

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English

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Etymology

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From up- +‎ swarm.

Verb

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upswarm (third-person singular simple present upswarms, present participle upswarming, simple past and past participle upswarmed)

  1. (transitive) To rise in a swarm.
  2. (intransitive) To cause to rise in a swarm.
    • c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, []”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
      And both against the Peace of Heauen, and him,
      Haue here vp-swarmed them.
    • 1791, Homer, translated by W[illiam] Cowper, The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, [], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: [] J[oseph] Johnson, [], →OCLC:
      Such was his exhortation; they his voice
      All hearing, with close-order'd ranks direct
      Bore on the barrier, and upswarming show'd
      On the high battlement their glittering spears

References

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upswarm”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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