Thronging
adj, noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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 […]"
- 1 present participle and gerund of throng form-of, gerund, participle, present
- 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;..."
Example
More examples"Soon as he saw the captured city fall, / the palace-gates burst open, and the foe / dealing wild riot in his inmost hall, / up sprang the old man and, at danger's call, / braced o'er his trembling shoulders in a breath / his rusty armour, took his belt withal, / and drew the useless falchion from its sheath, / and on their thronging spears rushed forth to meet his death."
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