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Meanings of massed in English

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Usage of massed in English
1
Several thousand protesters massed in other western towns, including Lutsk and Khmelnitsky.
The Irish Times
2
At last the massed brightness out in the plain quivered and parted.
1492
3
By the time they show up, thousands of people have already massed.
Reuters
4
She could see the massed outline of the trees of the spinney.
The Shuttle
5
The carriers went in first, thundering directly into the massed alien warriors.
Despoilers of the Golden Empire
6
Otherwise the outline is even and well-massed in a smooth ascending curve.
Mince Pie
7
Six batteries of artillery were massed in the centre under Colonel Downing.
The Great Boer War
8
The people have again massed themselves about the grounds surrounding the house.
The Transgressors / Story of a Great Sin / A Political Novel of ...
9
Still the people were massed solidly from the gutter to the house-steps.
The Governess
10
We massed in a straight line, two ranks: one active, one reserve.
World war z: an oral history of the zombie war
11
The Houthis control Hodeidah and coalition troops are massed on its outskirts.
Reuters
12
They had no glittering bayonets, they were not massed in regular array.
Notes of a War Correspondent
13
All was melancholy and silence and the massed defiance of ever-impending ruin.
At a Winter's Fire
14
They were massed together in groups with their arms all turned upwards.
The Elusive Pimpernel
15
The hills, the massed woods, the mist opposed their immovable front, scornfully.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 / A Maga...
16
Every little mistake by Australia led to a massed sigh of relief.
The Guardian
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United Kingdom
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Ireland
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United States of America
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