Clues for the word "SWARM"
We've had 86 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 131 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on April 07, 2025.
Definition of swarm
- v. i. - To climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. See Shin.
- n. - A large number or mass of small animals or insects, especially when in motion.
- n. - Especially, a great number of honeybees which emigrate from a hive at once, and seek new lodgings under the direction of a queen; a like body of bees settled permanently in a hive.
- n. - Hence, any great number or multitude, as of people in motion, or sometimes of inanimate objects; as, a swarm of meteorites.
- v. i. - To collect, and depart from a hive by flight in a body; -- said of bees; as, bees swarm in warm, clear days in summer.
- v. i. - To appear or collect in a crowd; to throng together; to congregate in a multitude.
- v. i. - To be crowded; to be thronged with a multitude of beings in motion.
- v. i. - To abound; to be filled (with).
- v. i. - To breed multitudes.
- v. t. - To crowd or throng.
Referring Clues
- 1978 disaster film, with "The"
- Group of bees
- Congregation of midges
- Bunch
- Bunch of bees
- Teem
- Bee formation
- Bee complex
- Body of bees
- Hive horde
- Hive mentality?
- Bee's bunch
- Mass of insects
- Bunch of locusts
- Bees aplenty
- Buzzing congregation
- Fly as a unit
- Hive activity
- Travel like gnats
- Insects in motion
- Bee squadron
- Buzz together
- Buzz together
- Buzzing cloud
- Act like the birds in "The Birds"
- Hornets' bunch
- Honey bunch?
- Honey bunch
- Locust group
- Hive of bees
- Bee cluster
- Many people in the same place, on Foursquare
- Group in a hive
- Hive cluster
- Massive formation of bees
- Throng
- Horde
- Bunch of hornets
- Bee team
- Group of gnats
- Teem, as bees
- Bee ball?
- Menacing cloud
- Bunch of bees, collectively
- Be like bees
- Bee bunch
- Mass of bees
- Bunch of bugs
- Group of insects
- Second heat gets crowd
- Bunch of bats
- Large group of flying insects
- What a flash mob does
- Crowd with arms waving
- Bumbling bunch?
- Ant army
- Cornish member of a body of social workers
- Honeybunch?
- Hives finally heat lots of bees
- Crowd's friendly
- Become enthusiastic attending Sunday Mass?
- Liven up after Sunday Mass
- Star initially followed by ardent crowd
- Cloud of locusts
- Honey bunch?
- Crowd
- Group of angry hornets
- The sun gets quite hot as you climb
- Climb up getting, at one point, quite hot
- War distributed by marines a lot
- Group of locusts
- Move like gnats
- Buzzy body?
- Cloud, as of gnats
- Cloud of bees
- Flock
- Mosquito mating maneuver
- What a bunch of bees may do
- Multitude
- What locusts do
- Bum-rush
- Mass of honeybees
- Bee teem?
- Bee group
- Mass of locusts or hornets
- Fly ball?
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 07, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - February 19, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 02, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 04, 2025
- New York Times - December 10, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 19, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - October 01, 2024
- New York Times - September 26, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 19, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 10, 2024
- USA Today - March 30, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - January 16, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - November 26, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 24, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 10, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - October 30, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - October 14, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - August 23, 2023
- LA Times - July 22, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - July 11, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - May 26, 2023
- LA Times - March 05, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - February 15, 2023
- New York Times - March 30, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - December 05, 2017
- Mirror Classic - October 15, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - September 27, 2017
- Washington Post Classic - August 27, 2017
- Mirror Quick - August 23, 2017
- LA Times - July 09, 2017
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