outswarm

English

Etymology

out- +‎ swarm

Verb

outswarm (third-person singular simple present outswarms, present participle outswarming, simple past and past participle outswarmed)

1. (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.