Smarmed vs Swarmed - What's the difference?
smarmed | swarmed |
(smarm)
smarmy language or behavior
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To fawn, to be unctuous.
* 1957 ,
To address in a fawning and unctuous manner.
(swarm)
A large number of insects, especially when in motion or (for bees) migrating to a new colony.
* Milton
A mass of people, animals or things in motion or turmoil.
* Addison
(label) A group of nodes sharing the same torrent in a BitTorrent network.
(lb) To move as a swarm .
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*: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.
(lb) To teem, or be overrun with insects, people, etc.
*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:Every place swarms with soldiers.
(lb) To fill a place as a swarm .
(lb) To overwhelm as by an opposing army.
To climb by gripping with arms and legs alternately.
* (1748–1828)
*:At the top was placed a piece of money, as a prize for those who could swarm up and seize it.
*1919 , , (The Moon and Sixpence) ,
*:She called out, and a boy came running along. He swarmed up a tree, and presently threw down a ripe nut. Ata pierced a hole in it, and the doctor took a long, refreshing draught.
To breed multitudes.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:Not so thick swarmed once the soil / Bedropped with blood of Gorgon.
As verbs the difference between smarmed and swarmed
is that smarmed is (smarm) while swarmed is (swarm).smarmed
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*smarm
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(en noun)citation, page= , passage=Phil Hartman, the voice and soul of McClure, was the king of making everything sounds cheerful and positive, no matter how grim. McClure was the personification of smarm . He alone could say, “Your children are missing. I know because I murdered them with my own hands!” and make it sound like good news.}}
Verb
(en verb)- He rose ... on his wife's fortune and judicious smarming of powerful people.
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*swarmed
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(head)swarm
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(en noun)- a deadly swarm of hornets
- a swarm of meteorites
- those prodigious swarms that had settled themselves in every part of it [Italy]