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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of overswarm.

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Examples

  • Disgusted, he moved to the next wagon, overswarmed like the first by grey ants.

    The Long Roll Mary Johnston 1903

  • And, the nation so overswarmed with ecclesiastics, that the spiritual honours were quickly devoured, and the race left hungry; they therefore fastened upon the temporal -- hence we boast of two knighted priests.

    An History of Birmingham (1783) William Hutton 1769

  • "These hinds would fair have overswarmed me had not the boy and

    In the Court of King Arthur

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