GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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   Crowd (kroud), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crowded; p. pr. & vb. n. Crowding.] [OE.  crouden, cruden, AS. crūdan; cf. D.  kruijen to push in a wheelbarrow.]
   1. To push, to press, to shove.  Chaucer.
   
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   2. To press or drive together; to mass together. “Crowd us and crush us.”  Shak.
   
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   3. To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity.
   
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   The balconies and verandas were crowded with spectators, anxious to behold their future sovereign. Prescott.
   
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   4. To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably. [Colloq.]
   
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   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.
   
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   crowded adj.
   1. overfilled or compacted or concentrated; filled to excess; as, “a crowded program”.  Opposite of uncrowded. [Narrower terms: full, jammed, jam-packed, packed]
   
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   2. filled with a crowd; as, “a crowded marketplace”.
   
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   3. having an uncomfortable density of people; filled to excess with people; as, “crowded trains”; a crowded theater.
   
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