Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Filled near or to capacity.
- adjective Filled with a crowd.
- adjective Filled to such an extent as to be detrimental to the inhabitants.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective overfilled or compacted or concentrated; filled to excess. Opposite of
uncrowded . - adjective filled with a crowd.
- adjective having an uncomfortable density of people; filled to excess with people; ; a
crowded theater.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Containing too many of something;
teeming . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
crowd .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective overfilled or compacted or concentrated
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Examples
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"I was there before nine, and even then Hickson's shop was crowded -- _crowded_, my dear!"
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Senate seat, partly because he couldn't put together a strong enough grass-roots campaign team that could defeat what he called a crowded "Republican scrum" of primary candidates.
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Senate seat, partly because he couldn't put together a strong enough grass-roots campaign team that could defeat what he called a crowded "Republican scrum" of primary candidates.
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Brown envisions a vast improvement to the shelter, which she described as crowded and substandard.
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Brown envisions a vast improvement to the shelter, which she described as crowded and substandard.
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Public S.fety officials and U.S. Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy of Columbus touted the funding yesterday during a tour of the current crime lab at 520 King Ave., which they called crowded and outdated.
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I think I'm going to start drilling holes in crowded areas and wow the populace by catching fish through the ice with my fly rod.
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I think I'm going to start drilling holes in crowded areas and wow the populace by catching fish through the ice with my fly rod.
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I am a bit unsure whether everyone staying at home is a good thing or not here - less people in crowded areas to be injured, but more chances of people being in buildings that could fall.
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A good reputation and a strong brand allow companies to stand out in crowded markets.
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