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Crowding

/ˈkɹaʊdɪŋ/

To press forward; to advance by pushing.

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📖 Definitions of "Crowding"

verb

1
To press forward; to advance by pushing.
"The man crowded into the packed room."
2
To press together or collect in numbers
"They crowded through the archway and into the park."
3
To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
"He tried to crowd too many cows into the cow-pen."
4
To fill by pressing or thronging together

verb

1
To play on a crowd; to fiddle.

noun

1
The act by which somebody is crowded.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Crowding"

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Word	Definition
crowd togetherverb	(ambitransitive) To push (someone or something) into an excessively small space; to pack tightly.
pushverb	(transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or thing applying the force.
gangnoun	A criminal group with a common cultural background and identifying features, often associated with a particular section of a city.
crewnoun	A group of people (often staff) manning and operating a large facility or piece of equipment such as a factory, ship, boat, airplane, or spacecraft.
bunchnoun	A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.
draw togetherverb	(transitive) To cause (someone) to seek emotional support from each other; to cause to pull together or come together.
herdnoun	A number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper.
crowdednessnoun	The state or quality of being crowded.
overcrowdingnoun	The situation where a space holds more occupants than it can comfortably accommodate.
overpopulationnoun	(biology, demography) An excessive number of occupants (people, animals, plants, etc.) in a particular area; specifically, when the number of occupants exceeds the ability of that area to provide for them.
bulknoun	The major part of something.
congestionnoun	The hindrance or blockage of the passage of something, for example a fluid, mixture, traffic, people, etc. (due to an excess of this or due to a partial or complete obstruction), resulting in overfilling or overcrowding.
clutternoun	(uncountable) A confused disordered jumble of things.
rallynoun	A public gathering or mass meeting that is not mainly a protest and is organized to inspire enthusiasm for a cause.
agglomerationnoun	State of being collected in a mass; a mass; cluster.
packingnoun	The action of putting things together, especially of putting clothes into a suitcase for a journey.
footprintnoun	The impression of the foot in a soft substance such as sand or snow.
gridlocknoun	(road transport) A condition of total, interlocking traffic congestion on the streets or highways of a crowded city, in which no one can move because everyone is in someone else's way.
markernoun	Someone or something that creates marks, particularly
densitynoun	(physics) A measure of the mass of matter contained by a unit volume.