2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Crowd \Crowd\ (kroud), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crowded}; p. pr &
vb n. {Crowding}.] [OE. crouden cruden, AS cr?dan; cf D.
kruijen to push in a wheelbarrow.]
1. To push to press, to shove. --Chaucer.
2. To press or drive together; to mass together. ``Crowd us
and crush us.'' --Shak.
3. To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence to
encumber by excess of numbers or quantity.
The balconies and verandas were crowded with
spectators, anxious to behold their future
sovereign. --Prescott.
4. To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence to treat
discourteously or unreasonably. [Colloq.]
{To crowd out}, to press out specifically, to prevent the
publication of as the press of other matter crowded out
the article.
{To crowd sail} (Naut.), to carry an extraordinary amount of
sail, with a view to accelerate the speed of a vessel; to
carry a press of sail.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
crowding
n : a situation in which people or things are crowded together;
"he didn't like the crowding on the beach"
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