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| Main Entry: |
swarm
[swawrm]
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move forward as a group |
| Synonyms: | abound, be alive, be numerous, cluster, congregate, crawl, crowd, flock, flow, gather, gather like bees, jam, mass, mob, move in a crowd, overrun, pullulate, rush together, stream, teem, throng |
| Antonyms: | retreat |
| Main Entry: | active |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having movement |
| Synonyms: | alive, astir, at work, bustling, effective, efficacious, exertive, flowing, functioning, going, hasty, impelling, in force, in play, in process, mobile, movable, moving, operating, operative, progressive, pushing, rapid, restless, rolling, running, rushing, rustling, shifting, simmering, speeding, speedy, streaming, swarming, traveling, turning, walking, working |
| Notes: | active knowledge is the knowledge of a language which a user actively employs in speech or writing, as opposed to passive knowledge, which is what a person understands in what he/she hears or reads |
| Antonyms: | abeyant, dormant, immobile, inactive, inert, lazy, sluggish |
| Main Entry: | alive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | being active, full of life |
| Synonyms: | abounding, alert, animated, awake, brisk, bustling, cheerful, dynamic, eager, energetic, lively, overflowing, quick, ready, replete, rife, sharp, spirited, sprightly, spry, stirring, swarming, teeming, vigorous, vital, vivacious, zestful |
| Antonyms: | dispirited, dull, lifeless, morose, sluggish, spiritless |
| Main Entry: | concentrate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | gather, collect |
| Synonyms: | accumulate, agglomerate, aggregate, amass, assemble, bunch, center, centralize, cluster, coalesce, collect, combine, compact, compress, congest, conglomerate, congregate, consolidate, constrict, contract, converge, cramp, crowd, draw together, eliminate, embody, focalize, focus, forgather, garner, get to the meat, heap, heap up, hoard, huddle, integrate, intensify, localize, mass, muster, narrow, pile, reduce, salt away, store, strengthen, swarm, unify, zero in |
| Antonyms: | disperse, scatter |
| Main Entry: | congregate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | assemble, come together |
| Synonyms: | besiege, bunch up, collect, concentrate, congress, convene, converge, convoke, corral, flock*, forgather, gang around, gang up, gather, hang out*, make the scene, mass, meet, meet up, muster, pack, raise, rally, rendezvous, round up, swarm, teem, throng |
| Antonyms: | divide, scatter, separate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | crowd |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cram, press into area |
| Synonyms: | bear, bunch, bundle, chock, cluster, congest, congregate, crush, deluge, elbow, flock, gather, huddle, jam, jam-pack, justle, mass, muster, overcrowd, pack, pack 'em in, pack like sardines, pile, push, ram, sardine, shove, squash, squeeze, squish, stream, surge, swamp, swarm, throng, top off, troop |
| Antonyms: | abandon, leave, retreat |
| Main Entry: | crowded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | busy, congested |
| Synonyms: | SRO, awash, brimful, brimming, chock-full, clean, close, compact, crammed, cramped, crushed, dense, elbow-to-elbow, filled to the rafters, fit to bust, full, full house, full up, huddled, jam-packed, jammed, loaded, lousy with, massed, mob scene, mobbed, overflowing, packed, populous, sardined, sold out, standing room only, stiff with, stuffed, swarming, teeming, thick, thickset, thronged, tight, topped off, up to here, up to the hilt, wall-to-wall |
| Antonyms: | empty, uncongested, uncrowded, unfilled |
| Main Entry: | flood |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | inundate or submerge |
| Synonyms: | brim over, choke, deluge, drown, engulf, fill, flow, glut, gush, immerse, overflow, oversupply, overwhelm, pour over, rush, saturate, surge, swamp, swarm, sweep, whelm |
| Main Entry: | gather |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | come or bring together |
| Synonyms: | accumulate, aggregate, amass, assemble, associate, bunch up, capture, choose, close with, cluster, collect, concentrate, congregate, convene, converge, corral, crowd, cull, draw, draw in, flock, forgather, gang up, garner, get together, group, hang around, hang out*, heap, herd, hoard, huddle, make the scene, marshal, mass, meet, muster, pick, pile up, pluck, poke*, pour in, punch*, rally, reunite, round up, scare up, scrape together, show up, stack up, stockpile, swarm, throng, unite |
| Antonyms: | allot, deal, disperse, distribute, divide, scatter, separate, spread |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2012 by the Philip Lief Group.
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