crowd - a large number of things or people considered together; "a crowd of insects assembled around the flowers"

lynch mob - a mob that kills a person for some presumed offense without legal authority

defeat, licking - an unsuccessful ending

defeat, get the better of, overcome - win a victory over; "You must overcome all difficulties"; "defeat your enemies"; "He overcame his shyness"; "She conquered here fear of mice"; "He overcame his infirmity"; "Her anger got the better of her and she blew up"

cut into, delve, dig, turn over - turn up, loosen, or remove earth; "Dig we must"; "turn over the soil for aeration"

core out, hollow out, hollow - remove the interior of; "hollow out a tree trunk"

beat, beat out, vanquish, trounce, crush, shell - come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"