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horde

noun as in uncontrolled throng, pack

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It’s a perfect weeklong route for mountain lovers looking to escape the hordes visiting nearby parks and take in a bit of locals-only Washington.

Merck employed hordes of chemists to produce large quantities of chemical compounds for use in new drugs.

Its population explodes from about 5,000 to 250,000 when the vacation hordes descend.

Every title sticks to the original’s formula of some kind of item management, exploration and puzzle solving — and, crucially, fighting off zombie hordes.

It was always there, a shuffling horde of familiar faces dissolved into vague, generic sketches.

But along with the cartoon funk is an all-too-real story of police brutality embodied by a horde of evil Pigs.

Here is a title that, in its prologue, tasks players with fighting a horde of angels on top of a moving jet.

Perhaps the threat of legal action has also played a role in curbing the horde of dyspeptic deviants.

Mrs. Clooney has been followed around Athens during a three-day visit by a horde of paparazzi that number into the hundreds.

At about 10 p.m., a horde of Hungarian police officers raided the bar, demanding that everybody show their identification.

In China the patriarch of a nomad horde became emperor of a nation retaining ancestor worship as its chief religious system.

The failure of this horde did not in the least check the proceedings of Sharp or Lauderdale or their like-minded colleagues.

In 1810 a threatened attack from a marauding horde of Kafirs was averted in answer to prayer.

It was this inspiration that changed a strong German horde into a people that loved culture, art and education.

He led the Auvergners to the left of the battle, where the Seljouk horde seemed thinnest.

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On this page you'll find 58 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to horde, such as: crowd, crush, gang, mob, multitude, and swarm.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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