HIVED Synonyms: 64 Similar and Opposite Words

hived

verb

past tense of hive

as in swarmed

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Krukow says ‘thank you’ to fans Fans have swarmed to support Krukow, with hundreds of positive comments and thousands of likes filling up the various social media posts announcing his retirement.

— Sean Campbell, Sacbee.com, 6 Aug. 2026
The challenge was to see how many passes each team could complete before they were dispossessed as opponents swarmed all over them.

— James Pearce, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of swarmed

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Few fishing experiences rival the rush of easing close to hundreds of seabirds swooping and diving on baitfish being herded and mauled by a school of slashing striped bass.

— Ken Perrotte, USA Today, 4 Aug. 2026
Irish and Scottish laborers moved to the West to work on railroads, while Mexican vaqueros herded cattle on the open range.

— Ted Olson, The Conversation, 2 July 2026

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OpenAI’s paper improves the best estimate for how tightly these balls can possibly be packed.

— Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2026
Video footage captured the incident in the village of Arkhipo-Osipovka near Gelendzhik, where the beach was packed with visitors at the time of the strike.

— Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 6 Aug. 2026

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But in the late 1970s, the country followed other nations in outlawing marijuana, and chased away the hippies who had flocked to the country.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2026
Roth hopes to immortalize the guy who drives around neighborhoods in that musical ice cream truck, the one kids have flocked to ever since wheels were invented.

— Pete Hammond, Deadline, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of flocked

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Three chicks were released along the Waukegan shoreline Tuesday, the same day three resident piping plovers were named and banded for identification, according to the Lake County Audubon Society.

— Finnegan Belleau, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2026
Some birds, such as Dark Green 06 and Yellow 25, were banded as far back as 2004 and have become minor celebrities.

— Michael Casey, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2026

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That’s when the north grounds of President's Park were thronged with booths, and attending crowds watched horse racing and cockfighting, according to the White House Historical Association.

— ABC News, ABC News, 6 Aug. 2026
Over the past two days crowds have thronged the central mosque where coffins containing the bodies of Khamenei and several of his family members were placed on display.

— Xiaoqian Lin, CNN Money, 6 July 2026

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