thronging

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noun

The act of those who throng or form a crowd.

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Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of throng
nounthronging (plural throngings)

plural throngings

  1. The act of those who throng or form a crowd.

    Tooth-drawers' bills, and tedious proclamations / In meal-markets, with throngings to see cutpurses […]

    c. 1614, John Fletcher, “Wit Without Money, a Comedy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act IV, scene v
adjectivethronging (comparative more thronging, superlative most thronging)

comparative more thronging · superlative most thronging

  1. Of something that throngs.

    Look at the arduous exertion required of middle life; the thronging anxieties that spring up for others more than for ourselves;...

    1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 312
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Chicago

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