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verb
To fill beyond reasonable limits, with people, animals, objects or information.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
crowd together too much
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: crowd, crowd together
verb
cause to crowd together too much
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: herd, crowd
Narrower terms: surcharge
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English crowd English overcrowd From over- + crowd.
Across languages
12 source translations are retained for this English entry.
