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[ adjective ] filled to overflowing with a vast number of moving or especially living things

Examples

"ditches alive with frogs" "roads crawling with cars" "a house overflowing with guests" "fields overrun with locusts" "swarming with insects"

Used in print

(Marvin Schiller, "The Sheep's in the Meadow,"...)

Times_Square , when I ascended to_it with my fellow subway travellers ( all dressed as if for a huge wedding in a family of which we were all distant members ) , was nearly impassable , the sidewalks swarming_with celebrants , with bundled_up sailors and soldiers already hugging their girls and their rationed bottles of whiskey .

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