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English
Etymology
From out- + swarm.
Verb
outswarm (third-person singular simple present outswarms, present participle outswarming, simple past and past participle outswarmed)
- (transitive) To swarm in greater numbers than.
1815, George Percival Bromley, The Rebellion, Or Norwich in 1549, page 38:No longer I regard ye as my countrymen; / But, tho' your numbers did outswarm the locusts, / As bandits, I would hurl destruction on you.