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thronged, ppl. a.
(θrɒŋd, poet. ˈθrɒŋɪd)
[f. throng v. + -ed1.]
1. Closely packed, as a multitude of people or things; crowded.
1652Benlowes Theoph. vii. iv, Those throng'd figures sum not Thee. 1713Addison Cato ii. i, The thick array Of his thronged legions. 1822J. MacDonald Mem. J. Benson 463 He addressed a thronged audience. 1860Pusey Min. Proph. 270 The mariners..ask Jonah thronged questions. 1908E. Wharton Hermit & Wild Wom. 41 The air shone with thronged candle-flames.
2. a. Of a place, etc.: Closely packed with people or things; crowded.
1594[see throng v. 6 c]. 1613W. Browne Brit. Past. ii. v. 115 As vnder their [trees'] command the thronged Creeke Ran lessened vp. 1746–7Hervey Medit. (1818) 251 To slip away from the thronged city. 1831Scott Ct. Rob. xxiii, A loud and varied murmur, resembling that of a thronged hive. 1889Gretton Memory's Harkb. 189 To me these thronged places are wearisome in the extreme.
b. Of time: Full of work or business; busily occupied; busy. Chiefly dial.
1791Isabella Wilson in Mem. (1825) 36 We have had a thronged time with our harvest. 1832Yorkshire Dial., We had a very thronged day. 1943R.A.F. Jrnl. Aug. 15 Members of the R.A.F. who in the midst of their thronged days find time to encourage and assist the Air Training Corps squadrons. |