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German
Pronunciation
Noun
Gewühl n (strong, genitive Gewühles or Gewühls, no plural)
- (collective) crowd (unordered crowd)
- 1918, Elisabeth von Heyking, Die Orgelpfeifen, in: Zwei Erzählungen, Phillipp Reclam jun. Verlag, page 35:
Auf dem Bahnhof dann, in dem sich senkenden Nebel, ein Gewühl von Pferden und grauen Gestalten, das zuerst unentwirrbar schien und sich dann doch rasch ordnete.- On the station then, in the sinking fog, a crowd of horses and gray characters that initially looked inextricable, but then put itself in order swiftly after all.
- turmoil
Declension
Further reading
- “Gewühl” in Duden online
- “Gewühl” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache