Word Meanings - LOCUSTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Swarming and devastating like locusts. Tennyson.

Related words: (words related to LOCUSTING)

• DEVASTATE
  To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate. Whole countries . . . were devastated. Macaulay. Syn. -- To waste; ravage; desolate; destroy; demolish; plunder; pillage.
• SWARM
  To climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. See Shin. At the top was placed a piece of money, as a prize for those who could swarm up and seize it. W. Coxe.
• DEVASTATOR
  One who, or that which, devastates. Emerson.
• SWARMSPORE
  One of innumerable minute, motile, reproductive bodies, produced asexually by certain algæ and fungi; a zoöspore.
• TENNYSONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Alfred Tennyson, the English poet ; resembling, or having some of the characteristics of, his poetry, as simplicity, pictorial quality, sensuousness, etc.
• DEVASTATION
  Waste of the goods of the deceased by an executor or administrator. Blackstone. Syn. -- Desolation; ravage; waste; havoc; destruction; ruin; overthrow. (more info) 1. The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste. Even
• UPSWARM
  To rise, or cause to rise, in a swarm or swarms. Shak. Cowper.