On-pressing

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of a group, crowd, army, etc., pressing forwards. not-comparable

    "At the threshold he paused for an instant, and, lifting the struggling Arab above his head, hurled him, as though from a catapult, full in the faces of his on-pressing fellows."

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"At the threshold he paused for an instant, and, lifting the struggling Arab above his head, hurled him, as though from a catapult, full in the faces of his on-pressing fellows."

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