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   throng

   /θrɒŋ/

   noun

   • 1. a large, densely packed crowd of people or animals: "he pushed his way through the throng"

   verb

   • 1. (of a crowd) fill or be present in (a place or area): "a crowd thronged the station" Similar pack (into)cram (into)jamfillpress intosqueeze intomobcrowd roundpress roundmill around/roundcongregate roundconverge roundhem inmobjostle
   • ▪ flock or be present in great numbers: "tourists thronged to the picturesque village" Similar rushstreamflocktroopcrowdswarmsurgefloodflowspillteem

   Word Origin Old English(ge)thrang ‘crowd, tumult’, of Germanic origin. The early sense of the verb (Middle English) was ‘press violently, force one's way’.

   Scrabble Points: 10

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