| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. A very large number of things grouped together: army, cloud, crowd, drove, flock, horde, host, legion, mass, mob, multitude, ruck1, score (used in plural), swarm. See BIG, GROUP. 2. An enormous number of persons gathered together: crowd, crush, drove, flock, horde, mass, mob, multitude, press, ruck1, swarm. See BIG, GROUP. | | VERB: | 1. To congregate, as around a person: crowd, flock, mob, press. See COLLECT, TIGHTEN. 2. To come or go in large numbers: flood, pour, swarm, troop. See BIG, MOVE.
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