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crowds in

crowds in is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 crowds in

What is crowds in the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Crowds in is the third-person singular simple present indicative of crowd in.

Words near crowds in in the dictionary

  1. crowdom
  2. crowdpleaser
  3. crowdpleasers
  4. crowdpleasing
  5. crowds
  6. crowds in
  7. crowds in on
  8. crowds out
  9. crowds sail
  10. crowds together
  11. crowds up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crowds 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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