Decrease and Swarm

noun

• A change downward.
  • usage: "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"
  • synonyms: lessening, drop-off
• A process of becoming smaller or shorter.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The amount by which something decreases.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The act of decreasing or reducing something.
  • synonyms: diminution, reduction, step-down

verb

• Decrease in size, extent, or range.
  • usage: "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
  • synonyms: diminish, lessen, fall
• Make smaller.
  • usage: "He decreased his staff"
  • synonyms: lessen, minify

• (v.t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.
• (v.) A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
• (n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc. or in strength, quality or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.
• (v.) The wane of the moon.

noun

• A moving crowd.
  • synonyms: drove, horde
• A group of many things in the air or on the ground.
  • usage: "a swarm of insects obscured the light"; "clouds of blossoms"; "it discharged a cloud of spores"
  • synonyms: cloud

verb

• Be teeming, be abuzz.
  • usage: "The garden was swarming with bees"; "The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen"; "her mind pullulated with worries"
  • synonyms: teem, pullulate
• Move in large numbers.
  • usage: "people were pouring out of the theater"; "beggars pullulated in the plaza"
  • synonyms: pour, stream, teem, pullulate

• (v.i.) To be crowded; to be thronged with a multitude of beings in motion.
• (v.i.) To breed multitudes.
• (v.i.) To abound; to be filled (with).
• (v.i.) To climb a tree, pole or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. See Shin.
• (v.t.) To crowd or throng.
• (v.i.) To appear or collect in a crowd; to throng together; to congregate in a multitude.
• (n.) Hence, any great number or multitude, as of people in motion or sometimes of inanimate objects; as, a swarm of meteorites.
• (v.i.) To collect, and depart from a hive by flight in a body; -- said of bees; as, bees swarm in warm, clear days in summer.
• (n.) A large number or mass of small animals or insects, especially when in motion.
• (n.) Especially, a great number of honeybees which emigrate from a hive at once, and seek new lodgings under the direction of a queen; a like body of bees settled permanently in a hive.