throng
verb/θrɒŋ/
/θrɔːŋ/
[intransitive, transitive] (literary)Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they throng | /θrɒŋ/ /θrɔːŋ/ |
| he / she / it throngs | /θrɒŋz/ /θrɔːŋz/ |
| past simple thronged | /θrɒŋd/ /θrɔːŋd/ |
| past participle thronged | /θrɒŋd/ /θrɔːŋd/ |
| -ing form thronging | /ˈθrɒŋɪŋ/ /ˈθrɔːŋɪŋ/ |
- to go somewhere or be present somewhere in large numbers
- + adv./prep. The children thronged into the hall.
- throng to do something People are thronging to see his new play.
- throng something Crowds thronged the stores.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryThrong is used with these nouns as the subject:- crowd
- square
- street
Word OriginOld English (ge)thrang ‘crowd, tumult’, of Germanic origin. The early sense of the verb (Middle English) was ‘press violently, force one's way’.
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