Crowd together (original) (raw)

I. (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To gather together in large numbersplay

Example:

men in straw boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah

Synonyms:

crowd; crowd together

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "crowd together" is one way to...):

assemble; foregather; forgather; gather; meet (collect in one place)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "crowd together"):

mass (join together into a mass or collect or form a mass)

overcrowd (crowd together too much)

pour; pullulate; stream; swarm; teem (move in large numbers)

herd (move together, like a herd)

jam; mob; pack; pile; throng (press tightly together or cram)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

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