throng

1. (transitive) To crowd into a place, especially to fill it.Examples: "By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country."; "Gay sex remains illegal but is rarely prosecuted, and an estimated 26,000 revelers thronged this year’s annual Pink Dot gay rights rally — one of the largest public gatherings of any sort seen in recent years."transitive

2. (intransitive) To congregate.Examples: "[…]I have seen the dumb men throng to see him and / The blind to bear him speak:[…]"intransitive

3. (transitive) To crowd or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living beings.Examples: "Much people followed him, and thronged him."; "A third is wroth: ‘Is this an hour ⁠For private sorrow’s barren song, ⁠When more and more the people throng The chairs and thrones of civil power?’"; "Pulling my hat down over my eyes, so as to hide somewhat the emotions which had thronged my countenance, I took a long look at the man whom I so long had sought."transitive