Meaning of throng in English

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  1. Pronunciation
  2. Verb
    1. Definitions
  3. Noun
    1. Etymology
    2. Definitions

  1. Pronunciation

    /θrɔŋ/

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  1. Verb

    throng

    Definitions

    1. press tightly together or cram

    Examples

    • « The crowd packed the auditorium »

    Derived terms

  2. Noun

    throng

    Etymology

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

    Definitions

    1. a large gathering of people

    Derived terms

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  • « My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is. »
    Saint Augustine

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