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thronged

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throng  (thrông, thrng)
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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Adj.1.thronged - filled with great numbers crowded together; "I try to avoid the thronged streets and stores just before Christmas"
crowded - overfilled or compacted or concentrated; "a crowded theater"; "a crowded program"; "crowded trains"; "a young mother's crowded days"

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He raised his eyes from the ghastly object of his attention and saw himself the center of a crowd of men and women dimly seen; the room was thronged with them.
Big nights and days and moments, all purple passages and freedoms, thronged my memory.
So the crowd of citizens, male and female, having closed their houses and shops, thronged from every direction, at early morn, towards some one of the three spots designated.
 
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