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throng
[ thrawng, throng ]
noun
- a multitude of people crowded or assembled together; crowd.
Synonyms: assemblage, host, horde
- a great number of things crowded or considered together:
a throng of memories.
- Chiefly Scot. pressure, as of work.
verb (used without object)
- to assemble, collect, or go in large numbers; crowd.
verb (used with object)
- to crowd or press upon; jostle.
- to fill or occupy with or as with a crowd:
He thronged the picture with stars.
- to bring or drive together into or as into a crowd, heap, or collection.
- to fill by crowding or pressing into:
They thronged the small room.
adjective
- filled with people or objects; crowded.
- (of time) filled with things to do; busy.
throng
/ θrɒŋ /
noun
- a great number of people or things crowded together
verb
- to gather in or fill (a place) in large numbers; crowd
- tr to hem in (a person); jostle
adjective
- dialect.postpositive busy
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Other Words From
- inter·thronging adjective
- over·throng verb
- un·thronged adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of throng1
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Origin of throng1
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Example Sentences
The throng took a collective breath before retreating back behind their office doors.
Cuomo shouted to the throng of elected officials gathered at the head of the parade.
She said the drug bridge drew the predictable sensationalism from a press throng that took its drug use cues from tamer festivals.
With that, he took a huff off a morning joint and moved into the throng of jovial patrons.
I threaded my way through the silent throng of spectators, but was stopped at Fourth Street by a cordon of police.
Above, great standard electric lamps shed their white glare upon the eddying throng casting a myriad of grotesque shadows.
It was eleven o'clock when he went out and joined the throng of people sunning themselves on the walk beside the lake.
Down in the hall a great throng of guests passed from the room into the garden and back again.
Lamb worked his way up into the throng and got a glimpse of the other guy getting stiff on the backroom floor.
A throng of young girls, gleaning, followed the reapers and raked up the ears that fell.
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