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crowding in

crowding in is the present participle and gerund of crowd in.

Meaning of crowd in

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To squeeze a large number of people in a small space.
    • If we're all going to fit in this elevator, we're going to have to crowd in!
  2. (intransitive) To close in and come to surround.
    • The walls are crowding in on him.1949, 51:40 from the start, in The Red Menace, spoken by narrator
  3. (transitive) To increase investment in the private sector by investing public sector funds.
    Antonyms:
    crowd out

Questions about crowding in

What is crowding in the present participle and gerund of?
Crowding in is the present participle and gerund of crowd in.

Words near crowding in in the dictionary

  1. crowdier
  2. crowdies
  3. crowdiest
  4. crowdin'
  5. crowding
  6. crowding in
  7. crowding in on
  8. crowding out
  9. crowding sail
  10. crowding together
  11. crowding up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crowding in (page history and authors); crowd in (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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