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fervilhar — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • seethe verb Of a liquid or other substance, or a container holding it: to be boiled (vigorously); to become boiling hot.
  • swarm noun A large group of insects, especially bees, moving or migrating together.
  • teem verb To be stocked to overflowing.

Senses

fervilhar is used for these senses in English:

  • swarm (intransitive) To teem, or be overrun with insects, people, etc.
  • teem To be stocked to overflowing.

seethe — full definition

  1. verb Of a liquid or other substance, or a container holding it: to be boiled (vigorously); to become boiling hot.
  2. verb Of a liquid, vapor, etc., or a container holding it: to foam or froth in an agitated manner, as if boiling.
  3. verb Of a person: to be in an agitated or angry mental state, often in a way that is not obvious to others.
  4. verb Of a place: to be filled with many people or things moving about actively; to buzz with activity; also, of people or things: to move about actively in a crowd or group.

swarm — full definition

  1. noun A large group of insects, especially bees, moving or migrating together.
  2. noun A large moving crowd of people or animals.
  3. verb To move together in a large, dense group.
  4. verb To be filled or overrun with something, especially insects or people.

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