overswarm
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overswarm (third-person singular simple present overswarms, present participle overswarming, simple past and past participle overswarmed)
- (transitive) To swarm over; to overrun.
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
- 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 […]