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crowded out

crowded out is the simple past and past participle of crowd out.

Meaning of crowd out

Verb

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

  1. (figuratively, sometimes, transitive) To force to leave by crowding; to push out or away through strength of numbers.
    • Moreover, acknowledgements got crowded out of last month's article, so that a double list has to be printed this month, and one of the longest on record.1956 December, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 854

Questions about crowded out

What is crowded out the simple past and past participle of?
Crowded out is the simple past and past participle of crowd out.

Words near crowded out in the dictionary

  1. crowd-sources
  2. crowd-sourcing
  3. crowded
  4. crowded in
  5. crowded in on
  6. crowded out
  7. crowded sail
  8. crowded together
  9. crowded up
  10. crowdedly
  11. crowdedness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crowded out (page history and authors); crowd out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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