Meaning

2 senses
  1. (transitive)To thrust; crowd; press; squeeze.

  2. (intransitive)To push; to force one's way.

Origin

From Middle English thringen, from Old English þringan (“to press, squeeze, crowd”), from

From Middle English thringen, from Old English þringan (“to press, squeeze, crowd”), from Proto-West Germanic *þringwan, from Proto-Germanic *þrinhwaną (“to press, throng, crush”), from Proto-Indo-European *trenkʷ- (“to beat, hew, press”).

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Forms

thrings, thringing, thrang, thrung
Base formthring · to thring
3rd person singularthrings
Present participlethringing
Past simplethrang / thrung / thringed
Past participlethrung / thringed

irregular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theythring
he, she, itthrings

Past simpleLesson

all personsthrang

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave thrung
he, she, ithas thrung

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill thring

Synonyms

4 synonyms

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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