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CROWD TOGETHER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does crowd together mean?
• CROWD TOGETHER (verb)
The verb CROWD TOGETHER has 1 sense:
1. to gather together in large numbers
Familiarity information: CROWD TOGETHER used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
To gather together in large numbers
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
crowd; crowd together
Context example:
men in straw boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah
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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