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| NOUN: | 1. An enormous number of persons gathered together: crowd, crush, drove, flock, horde, mass, mob, multitude, ruck1, swarm, throng. See BIG, GROUP. 2. Journalists and journalism in general: fourth estate, medium (used in plural (media)). British : Fleet Street. See WORDS. | | VERB: | 1. To exert pressure: bear, push. See OVER. 2. To act on with a steady pushing force: crowd, crush. See PUSH. 3. To congregate, as around a person: crowd, flock, mob, throng. See COLLECT, TIGHTEN. 4. To put one's arms around affectionately: clasp, embrace, enfold, hold, hug, squeeze. Slang : clinch. Archaic : bosom, clip2, embosom. See TOUCH. 5. To solicit (something) insistently: insist, urge. See CONTINUE, SEEK. 6. To smooth by applying heat and pressure: iron, mangle2. See SMOOTH. 7. To do or achieve by forcing obstacles out of one's way: push, ram, shove. See PUSH. 8. To extract from by applying pressure: crush, express, squeeze. See TIGHTEN. 9. To impel to action: exhort, urge. See CAUSE, PUSH.
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