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crowd up

crowd up verb: to come together, to form a crowd.

Verb

crowd up (third-person singular simple present crowds up, present participle crowding up, simple past and past participle crowded up)

  1. (intransitive) To come together, to form a crowd.
    • They all crowded up and leaned over the rails, nearly in my face, and kept still, watching with all their might. I could see them first-rate, but they couldn't see me.1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VIII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC

Forms of crowd up

third-person singular presentcrowds up
present participlecrowding up
past participlecrowded up
pastcrowded up

Questions about crowd up

What does crowd up mean?
Crowd up means to come together, to form a crowd.
What part of speech is crowd up?
Crowd up is a verb.
What is the past tense of crowd up?
The past tense of crowd up is crowded up.

Words near crowd up in the dictionary

  1. crowd surf
  2. crowd surfer
  3. crowd surfers
  4. crowd surfing
  5. crowd together
  6. crowd up
  7. crowd vetting
  8. crowd wave
  9. crowd waves
  10. crowd work
  11. crowd-kill

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