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crowds out

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

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

Words near crowds out in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crowds 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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