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throng

  [thrawng, throng]
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–noun
1. a multitude of people crowded or assembled together; crowd.
2. a great number of things crowded or considered together: a throng of memories.
3. Chiefly Scot. pressure, as of work.
–verb (used without object)
4. to assemble, collect, or go in large numbers; crowd.
–verb (used with object)
5. to crowd or press upon; jostle.
6. to fill or occupy with or as with a crowd: He thronged the picture with stars.
7. to bring or drive together into or as into a crowd, heap, or collection.
8. to fill by crowding or pressing into: They thronged the small room.
–adjective Scot. and North England.
9. filled with people or objects; crowded.
10. (of time) filled with things to do; busy.
Origin:
bef. 1000; (n.) ME; OE gethrang; c. D drang, G Drang pressure, ON thrǫng throng; (adj. and v.) ME; akin to the n.; cf. obs. thring to press

Synonyms:
1. horde, host; assemblage. See crowd 1 .
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throng   (thrông, thrŏng)   
n.  

  1. A large group of people gathered or crowded closely together; a multitude. See Synonyms at crowd1.

  2. A large group of things; a host.

v.   thronged, throng·ing, throngs

v.   tr.

  1. To crowd into; fill: commuters thronging the subway platform.

  2. To press in on.

v.   intr.
To gather, press, or move in a throng.

[Middle English, from Old English gethrang.]
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Word Origin & History

throng  (n.)
c.1300, probably shortened from O.E. geþrang "crowd, tumult" (related to verb þringan "to push, crowd, press"), from P.Gmc. *thrangan (cf. O.N. þröng, Du. drang, Ger. Drang "crowd, throng"). The verb, in the sense of "go in a crowd," is first recorded 1534.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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