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overcrowd

overcrowd verb: to fill beyond reasonable limits, with people, animals, objects or information.

Verb

overcrowd (third-person singular simple present overcrowds, present participle overcrowding, simple past and past participle overcrowded)

  1. To fill beyond reasonable limits, with people, animals, objects or information.
    • The host of business travellers between Bishops Stortford and London would scarcely take kindly to devious routing via the Southbury line; on the other hand, it is not desirable that they should overcrowd the business trains to and from Cambridge.1961 January, “The North-East London electrification of the Great Eastern Line”, in Trains Illustrated, page 19

overcrowd meaning in Tamil and Kannada

overcrowd in Tamil

அளவு மீறியகூட்டம்

overcrowd in Kannada

ದಟ್ಟವಾಗು, ಕಿಕ್ಕಿರಿ

Examples of overcrowd in a sentence

  • It is essential to keep the numbers down to avoid overcrowding.
  • Due to overcrowding, the train network is experiencing very long dwell times.
  • The deinstitutionalization of minor offenders helps reduce prison overcrowding.

All 20 example sentences with overcrowd

Forms of overcrowd

third-person singular presentovercrowds
present participleovercrowding
past participleovercrowded
pastovercrowded

Origin of overcrowd

From over- + crowd.

Words formed from overcrowd

Questions about overcrowd

What does overcrowd mean?
Overcrowd means to fill beyond reasonable limits, with people, animals, objects or information.
What is overcrowd in Tamil?
Overcrowd in Tamil is அளவு மீறியகூட்டம். See Overcrowd meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is overcrowd?
Overcrowd is a verb.
What is the past tense of overcrowd?
The past tense of overcrowd is overcrowded.

Words near overcrowd in the dictionary

  1. overcrossed
  2. overcrosses
  3. overcrossing
  4. overcrossings
  5. overcrow
  6. overcrowd
  7. overcrowded
  8. overcrowdedly
  9. overcrowdedness
  10. overcrowder
  11. overcrowders

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overcrowd (page history and authors); overcrowd (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); overcrowd (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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