Meanings
verbupswarm (third-person singular simple present upswarms, present participle upswarming, simple past and past participle upswarmed)
present singular third person upswarms · participle present upswarming · participle past upswarmed · past upswarmed
- transitiveTo rise in a swarm.
- intransitiveTo cause to rise in a swarm.
And both against the Peace of Heauen, and him, Haue here vp-swarmed them.
c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]1 more example
Such was his exhortation; they his voice All hearing, with close-order'd ranks direct Bore on the barrier, and upswarming show'd On the high battlement their glittering spears
1791, Homer, translated by W[illiam] Cowper, The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC
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