thronging

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of throng

noun

1. The act of those who throng or form a crowd.

   “Tooth-drawers' bills, and tedious proclamations / In meal-markets, with throngings to see cutpurses […]”

adj

1. Of something that throngs.

   “Look at the arduous exertion required of middle life; the thronging anxieties that spring up for others more than for ourselves;...”