Swarted vs Swarmed - What's the difference?
swarted | swarmed |
(swart)
Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny.
* 1400s:' , ''Hymns to the Virgin'' - Men schalle then sone se / Att mydday hytt shalle ' swarte be
* 1590', , ''The Faerie Queene'', Book 2 - A nation strange, with visage ' swart
* , III-i - Lame, foolish, crooked, swart , prodigious,
* 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act II, Scene I, verses 91-92
* 1836', , ''Old Ticonderoga'' - The merry soldiers footing it with the ' swart savage maids
Black.
(obsolete) Gloomy; malignant.
* 1906', , ''Time and the Gods'' - Suddenly the ' swart figure of Time stood up before the gods, with both hands dripping with blood and a red sword dangling idly from his fingers, and said: “Sardathrion is gone! I have overthrown it!”
To make swart or tawny; as, to swart a living part; blacken; tan.
* 1646', , ''Pseudodoxia Epidemica'' - the heate of the Sun, whose fervor may ' swarte a living part, and even black a dead or dissolving flesh,
* 1587: Raphael Holinshed, Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland [http://www.archive.org/stream/holinshedschroni01holi#page/356/mode/1up]
(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 .
*
*: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 swarted and swarmed
is that swarted is past tense of swart while swarmed is past tense of swarm.swarted
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(head)Anagrams
*swart
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) swart, from (etyl) . Compare (l), (l).Adjective
(er)- I'll choose a gaoler, whose swart monstrous face
- Shall be a hell to look upon […]
- (Milton)
Derived terms
* swarten * Swart star, (Rare): the Dog Star -- so called from its appearing during the hot weather of summer, which makes swart the countenance. * swarthy (< swarty)Etymology 2
From (etyl) swarten, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)Etymology 3
Variant of sward.Noun
(-)- Howbeit where the rocks and quarrie grounds are, I take the swart of the earth to be so thin, that no tree of anie greatnesse, other than shrubs and bushes, is able to grow or prosper long therein for want of sufficient moisture wherewith to feed them with fresh humour, or at the leastwise of mould...
References
* *Anagrams
* ----swarmed
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(head)swarm
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Noun
(en noun)- a deadly swarm of hornets
- a swarm of meteorites
- those prodigious swarms that had settled themselves in every part of it [Italy]