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throng

Pronunciation: (thrông, throng), [key]
—n.
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.

—v.i.
to assemble, collect, or go in large numbers; crowd.

—v.t.
1. to crowd or press upon; jostle.
2. to fill or occupy with or as with a crowd: He thronged the picture with stars.
3. to bring or drive together into or as into a crowd, heap, or collection.
4. to fill by crowding or pressing into: They thronged the small room.

—adj. Scot. and North Eng.
1. filled with people or objects; crowded.
2. (of time) filled with things to do; busy.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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