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"etymology_text": "From the game StarCraft (1998), in which the easily mass-produced Zerg units encourage such a strategy.",
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"ref": "2002, Wolfie, “Re: Whoa - massive changes due in next patch”, in alt.games.everquest (Usenet)",
"text": "You can't win with small, balanced groups. You have to zerg the mob with a high number of players. They don't have to zerg lower tier encounters just like the lowest tier guilds doesn't have to zerg orc camp 1 in EC. But, at the top end, it's still zerg tactics.",
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"ref": "2003, George, “Finding groups to mission/hunt/other experience with”, in alt.games.starwarsgalaxies (Usenet)",
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"ref": "2008, neithskye, “AV after the last changes...”, in alt.games.warcraft (Usenet)",
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"(slang, video games, strategy games) To attack an opponent with a large swarm of units before they have been able to build sufficient defences."
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "To attack an opponent with a large swarm of units before they have been able to build sufficient defences",
"word": "（蟲海）淹"
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"sense": "To attack an opponent with a large swarm of units before they have been able to build sufficient defences",
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"sense": "To attack an opponent with a large swarm of units before they have been able to build sufficient defences",
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"sense": "To attack an opponent with a large swarm of units before they have been able to build sufficient defences",
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"sense": "To attack an opponent with a large swarm of units before they have been able to build sufficient defences",
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"ref": "2003, George, “Finding groups to mission/hunt/other experience with”, in alt.games.starwarsgalaxies (Usenet)",
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"ref": "2008, neithskye, “AV after the last changes...”, in alt.games.warcraft (Usenet)",
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "To attack an opponent with a large swarm of units before they have been able to build sufficient defences",
"word": "（蟲海）淹"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "To attack an opponent with a large swarm of units before they have been able to build sufficient defences",
"word": "（虫海）淹"
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"sense": "To attack an opponent with a large swarm of units before they have been able to build sufficient defences",
"word": "zergata"
},
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"sense": "To attack an opponent with a large swarm of units before they have been able to build sufficient defences",
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"sense": "To attack an opponent with a large swarm of units before they have been able to build sufficient defences",
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