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crowding out

crowding out is the present participle and gerund 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 crowding out

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

Words near crowding out in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crowding 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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