be alive with (someone or something)
(redirected from is alive with them)be alive with (someone or something)
To be full of or covered with something. At night, the field is alive with fireflies. The court was alive with jubilant fans after the basketball team's big win. It's worse than we thought—this whole section of the woodwork is alive with termites.
See also: alive
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