swarmedadj.
/ˈswɔːmɪd//swɔːmd/ poetic. rare.
Of a place: crowded, thronged. Of people: assembled in a crowd, congregated, massed.
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the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > [adjective] > full > crowded
thickc893
replete?a1475
frequentc1540
throng1557
thicky1587
thronged1605
celebrious1611
crowded1612
stiff1683
swarming1810
multitudinous1820
throngful1830
dense1842
swarmy1858
teeminga1873
swarmed1885
mobbed1898
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [adjective] > assembling in crowds > assembled in crowds
hosted1807
mob-handed1934
swarmed1951
1885 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 98 How then should Gregory, a father, have gleanèd else from swarm-èd Rome?
1951 R. Graves Poems & Satires 37 Tormented by his progress he displays An open flank to the swarmed enemy.
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adj.1885