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crowding up

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

Meaning of crowd up

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

Questions about crowding up

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

Words near crowding up in the dictionary

  1. crowding in
  2. crowding in on
  3. crowding out
  4. crowding sail
  5. crowding together
  6. crowding up
  7. crowdingly
  8. crowdings
  9. crowdion
  10. crowdions
  11. crowdipper

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