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(intransitive) To move as a swarm. / (intransitive) To teem, or be overrun with insects, people, etc. / (transitive) To fill a place as a swarm. / (transitive) To overwhelm as by an opposing army.

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Source Word

swarm

IPA(Pronunciation)

/swɔɹm/

Verb

intransitive transitive

(intransitive) To move as a swarm. / (intransitive) To teem, or be overrun with insects, people, etc. / (transitive) To fill a place as a swarm. / (transitive) To overwhelm as by an opposing army.

Japanese Meaning

（集合体として）動く / 大量に存在する、群がる / 場所を大量に満たす / （対抗勢力などにより）圧倒する

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At dusk, starlings swarm above the river, turning the sky into a living cloud.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

夕暮れ時、ムクドリが川の上で群がり、空を生きている雲のように変わった。

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Sense（1）

(intransitive) To move as a swarm.

There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. Mail bags, so I understand, are being put on board. Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors.

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(intransitive) To teem, or be overrun with insects, people, etc.

Every place swarming with soldiers.

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Sense（3）

(transitive) To fill a place as a swarm.

Sense（4）

(transitive) To overwhelm as by an opposing army.

So, yeah. The overall conclusion of the big gunfight being that, if Yamato is able to tackle the Colorados early, then the Japanese probably have a, maybe a sixty-to-sixty-five-percent chance of pulling this off... although you say "pulling it off", it's more a case of "the Japanese are the last battleship standing"; they tend to then just get swarmed by angry Fletchers[…]

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