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- Dictionaryovercrowd/ˌəʊvəˈkraʊd/
verb
- 1. fill (accommodation or a space) beyond what is comfortable, safe, or desirable: "employees were assigned to make sure people didn't overcrowd the escalators"
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to make a place contain too many people or things: The new housing development will overcrowd the village. Don't overcrowd the fridge or it will not cool as effectively. See. overcrowded. Fewer examples. The council's plan would overcrowd the high school. Too many prisoners are sent back to prison, and overcrowd the system.
: to cause to be too crowded. intransitive verb. : to crowd together too much. Examples of overcrowd in a Sentence. Recent Examples on the Web That has tested the region’s roads, increased concerns about water supply and led to overcrowding in county animal shelters, among other issues.
Overcrowd definition: to crowd to an uncomfortable or undesirable excess.. See examples of OVERCROWD used in a sentence.
containing too many people or things: overcrowded cities / prisons / schools. The world market for telecommunications is already overcrowded with businesses. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Full. alive with something idiom. awash. be a rich seam to mine idiom. be riddled with something idiom. bristle. burst. congested. cramped.
Definitions of overcrowd. verb. cause to crowd together too much. “The students overcrowded the cafeteria”. see more. verb. crowd together too much. see more.
to fill (a room, vehicle, city, etc) with more people or things than is desirable. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. Word Frequency. overcrowd in American English. (ˌoʊvərˈkraʊd ) verb transitive. to crowd with too many people or things. Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition.
o·ver·crowd. (ō′vər-kroud′) v. o·ver·crowd·ed, o·ver·crowd·ing, o·ver·crowds. v.tr. To cause to be excessively crowded: a system of consolidation that only overcrowded the classrooms. v.intr. To crowd together excessively. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
What does the verb overcrowd mean? There are two meanings listed in OED's entry for the verb overcrowd. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. See meaning & use. How common is the verb overcrowd? About 2 occurrences per million words in modern written English. See frequency. How is the verb overcrowd pronounced?
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023 How to use overcrowd in a sentence It was one of those galaxies that now and then over-crowd the literary heavens with stars.
overcrowd (third-person singular simple present overcrowds, present participle overcrowding, simple past and past participle overcrowded) To fill beyond reasonable limits, with people, animals, objects or information.
