crowd

  • 41crowd — noun a large number of people gathered together. ↘a large audience, especially at a sporting event. ↘informal, often derogatory a group of people with a common interest. verb 1》 [often as adjective crowded] (of a number of people) fill (a space)… …

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  • 42crowd — 1. noun 1) a crowd gathered Syn: throng, horde, mass, multitude, host, army, swarm, mob, rabble; informal gaggle 2) they re a nice crowd Syn: group, set …

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  • 43crowd — 1. tv. to pressure or threaten someone. □ Don’t crowd me! □ Frank began to crowd Sam, which was the wrong thing to do. 2. tv. to gang up on someone. □ Some guys were crowding Todd, so we chased them off. □ …

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  • 44crowd — [OE] The notion underlying crowd is of ‘pushing’ or ‘pressing’ (a semantic element shared by throng and of course by the now obsolete use of press for ‘crowd’, and echoed in such current expressions as ‘there’s quite a crush in here’). The Old… …

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  • 45crowd — 1. verb /kraʊd/ a) To push, to press, to shove. b) To press or drive together; to mass together. 2 …

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  • 46crowd up — verb To come together, to form a crowd. They all crowded up and leaned over the rails, nearly in my face, and kept still, watching with all their might. I could see them first rate, but they couldnt see me …

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  • 47crowd — Synonyms and related words: A string, Amati, Cremona, D string, E string, G string, Strad, Stradivari, Stradivarius, abound with, accelerate, age group, aggregation, army, assault, assemblage, assemble, assembly, band, bar, barricade, bass, bass… …

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  • 48crowd — chrotta лат. [хро/тта] crott старо ирл. [кротт] crowd англ. [кра/уд] crwth уэльск. [крут] кротта, смычковый инструм. нач. ср. веков в Ирландии, Уэльсе …

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  • 49crowd in — PHRASAL VERB If problems or thoughts crowd in on you, a lot of them happen to you or affect you at the same time, so that they occupy all your attention and make you feel unable to escape. [V P on n] Everything is crowding in on me... [V P] She… …

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  • 50Crowd funding — (sometimes called crowd financing, crowd sourced capital, or street performer protocol) describes the collective cooperation, attention and trust by people who network and pool their money and other resources together, usually via the Internet,… …

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