thring

English

Alternative forms

• dring (dialectal)

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθɹɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɪŋ

Verb

thring (third-person singular simple present thrings, present participle thringing, simple past thrang or thrung or thringed, past participle thrung or thringed) (UK dialectal, Northern England and Scotland, otherwise obsolete)

1. (transitive) To thrust; crowd; press; squeeze.
2. (intransitive) To push; to force one's way.

Synonyms

• (crowd): mass, throng; see also Thesaurus:assemble
• (squeeze): compress, condense; see also Thesaurus:compress

Related terms

• thrang
• throng

Translations

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Translations to be checked

• Dutch: dringen (nl)