crowding

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To press forward; to advance by pushing.
   • The man crowded into the packed room.

   Synonyms:

   barge

2. (intransitive) To press together or collect in numbers.
   • They crowded through the archway and into the park.

   Synonyms:

   swarm, throng, crowd in, crush, pile, horde

3. (transitive) To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
   • He tried to crowd too many cows into the cow-pen.
4. (transitive) To fill by pressing or thronging together
   • The balconies and verandas were crowded with spectators, anxious to behold their future sovereign.1875, William Hickling Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain
5. (often, transitive) To push, to press, to shove.
   • They tried to crowd her off the sidewalk.
6. To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.

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