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A crowd so dense it stops being people and starts being weather.
means A large, tightly packed crowd of people or things pressing together in one place.
from From Old English 'ge'rang/þrang', tied to the verb 'thringan' meaning to press or crowd — the same push-and-squeeze sense survives in German 'dringen' (to penetrate, push through), a likely cousin. The word has always carried that physical sense of bodies forced close by sheer pressure, long before it settled into meaning any big crowd.
- origin
- from old english for press or crush
- usage shift
- once a verb before it became a noun
- vs crowd
- implies motion, pushing toward one point
- synonym energy
- swarm with better posture