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Crowd

To push, to press, to shove.

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Broader term 13

Approach 76% connected

To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer.

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Assemblage 76% connected

The act of assembling, or the state of being assembled; association.

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Assemble 76% connected

To collect into one place or body; to bring or call together; to convene; to congregate.

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Displace 76% connected

To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library ar…

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Fill 76% connected

One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.

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Foregather 76% connected

Same as Forgather.

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Forgather 76% connected

To convene; to gossip; to meet accidentally.

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Gather 76% connected

To bring together; to collect, as a number of separate things, into one place, or into one aggregate body; to assemble; to muster; to congregate.

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Gathering 76% connected

of Gather

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Meet 76% connected

To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as d…

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Move 76% connected

To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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Near 76% connected

At a little distance, in place, time, manner, or degree; not remote; nigh.

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Occupy 76% connected

To take or hold possession of; to hold or keep for use; to possess.

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Narrower term 14

Army 76% connected

A collection or body of men armed for war, esp. one organized in companies, battalions, regiments, brigades, and divisions, under proper officers.

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Crush 76% connected

To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mas…

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Drove 76% connected

of Drive

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Flock 76% connected

A company or collection of living creatures; -- especially applied to sheep and birds, rarely to persons or (except in the plural) to cattle and othe…

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Horde 76% connected

A wandering troop or gang; especially, a clan or tribe of a nomadic people migrating from place to place for the sake of pasturage, plunder, etc.; a…

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Huddle 76% connected

To press together promiscuously, from confusion, apprehension, or the like; to crowd together confusedly; to press or hurry in disorder; to crowd.

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Jam 76% connected

A kind of frock for children.

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Mob 76% connected

A mobcap.

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Phalanx 76% connected

A body of heavy-armed infantry formed in ranks and files close and deep. There were several different arrangements, the phalanx varying in depth from…

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Press 76% connected

An East Indian insectivore (Tupaia ferruginea). It is arboreal in its habits, and has a bushy tail. The fur is soft, and varies from rusty red to mar…

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Rabble 76% connected

An iron bar, with the end bent, used in stirring or skimming molten iron in the process of puddling.

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Rout 76% connected

To roar; to bellow; to snort; to snore loudly.

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Swarm 76% connected

To climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. See Shin.

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Troop 76% connected

A collection of people; a company; a number; a multitude.

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Manner of action 13

Herd 76% connected

Haired.

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Jam 76% connected

A kind of frock for children.

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Mass 76% connected

The sacrifice in the sacrament of the Eucharist, or the consecration and oblation of the host.

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Mob 76% connected

A mobcap.

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Overcrowd 76% connected

To crowd too much.

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Pack 76% connected

A pact.

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Pile 76% connected

A hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like; also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet.

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Pour 76% connected

Poor.

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Pullulate 76% connected

To germinate; to bud; to multiply abundantly.

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Stream 76% connected

A current of water or other fluid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river, brook, etc., or from a vessel,…

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Swarm 76% connected

To climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. See Shin.

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Teem 76% connected

To pour; -- commonly followed by out; as, to teem out ale.

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Throng 76% connected

of Thring

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Derivationally related 8

Drover 74% connected

One who drives cattle or sheep to market; one who makes it his business to purchase cattle, and drive them to market.

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Drover 74% connected

One who drives cattle or sheep to market; one who makes it his business to purchase cattle, and drive them to market.

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Herd 74% connected

Haired.

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Herd 74% connected

Haired.

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Ruck 74% connected

A roc.

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Ruck 74% connected

A roc.

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Synonym 5

Bunch 92% connected

A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.

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Crew 92% connected

The Manx shearwater.

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Gang 92% connected

To go; to walk.

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Herd 92% connected

Haired.

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Push 92% connected

A pustule; a pimple.

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