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overcrowds

overcrowds is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overcrowd.

Meaning of overcrowd

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

Questions about overcrowds

What is overcrowds the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Overcrowds is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overcrowd.

Words near overcrowds in the dictionary

  1. overcrowdedness
  2. overcrowder
  3. overcrowders
  4. overcrowding
  5. overcrowdings
  6. overcrowds
  7. overcrowed
  8. overcrowing
  9. overcrows
  10. overcruel
  11. overcrust

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