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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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adj
Busy, preoccupied.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Scotland, dialectal, rare
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adj
Crowded, busy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Scotland, dialectal, rare
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Synonyms: throng
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To throng.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland
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verb
simple past of thring
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, past
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History
From Middle English thrang, throng (“dense, thick, tight, constrictive”), cognate with Old Norse þrǫngr (“narrow, close, tight”). Related to English thring (“to press”).
From thring (“to press, squeeze”).
