verb

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To press forward; to advance by pushing.

example

The man crowded into the packed room.

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To press together or collect in numbers

example

They crowded through the archway and into the park.

synonyms

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To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.

example

He tried to crowd too many cows into the cow-pen.

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To fill by pressing or thronging together

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(often used with "out of" or "off") To push, to press, to shove.

example

They tried to crowd her off the sidewalk.

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To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.

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(of a square-rigged ship) To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.

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To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.

verb

definition

To play on a crowd; to fiddle.

noun

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The act by which somebody is crowded.

Examples of crowding in a Sentence

Just as quickly, a picture of Cynthia Byrne began crowding his mind.

The emerging brightness of the new day, while inviting, did nothing to sort out the tangle of thoughts crowding his brain like the line of a snarled fishing reel.

At daybreak, however, those nearing the town at the Dorogomilov bridge saw ahead of them masses of soldiers crowding and hurrying across the bridge, ascending on the opposite side and blocking the streets and alleys, while endless masses of troops were bearing down on them from behind, and an unreasoning hurry and alarm overcame them.

All of the teeth fit easily without crowding or spacing.

Some eight or nine young men were crowding anxiously round an open window.

The flames now died down and were lost in the black smoke, now suddenly flared up again brightly, lighting up with strange distinctness the faces of the people crowding at the crossroads.

Avoid the temptation to purchase disposable products that contribute to landfill crowding.

Crowding a space to its fullest capacity only emphasizes it's too small.

All the essential products should fit comfortably in the bag without crowding or straining, preferably with enough room for some minor rummaging as you search for the right case without needing to remove items.

With words like "master" and "toolbox" crowding its name, I expected nothing less than the best from this product.

These little plants should be sown thinly in light rich soil, and thinned to prevent crowding.

Although you will want to avoid crowding your plants, you can plant things closer together in a raised bed.

In addition to the many basic bras, panties and other undergarments a woman likely has crowding her lingerie drawer, a few more daring items may show up from time to time.

For example, when playing miniature golf, allow faster players to play through and avoid crowding other guests.

Spectators take a more active role by snapping pictures and crowding behind you as you race past.

Children with Marfan sometimes develop dental problems related to crowding of the teeth caused by a high-arched palate and a narrow jaw.

Children with Marfan should be evaluated by their dentist at each checkup for crowding of the teeth and possible misalignment and referred to an orthodontist if necessary.

Minor misalignment or crowding may not require treatment.

Maturational change can cause teeth to gradually shift with age-at least until one's early 20s-causing crowding.

If the baby teeth are pushed too close together, the six-year-molars will be too far forward, crowding the permanent teeth that erupt in front of them.

In a perfect jaw, all of the teeth fit exactly without crowding or spacing.

Many obstetricians feel that intrauterine crowding causes clubfoot.

This is referred to as the "crowding effect" and helps in diagnosing amblyopia.

There are numerous hair loss products crowding the market.

One of most important things about getting a girl to like you is not crowding her.

With silk, nylon netting, silk-like poly, and more crowding the market, it's not impossible to select a bra and panties set that you could regret.

The youngest skittered away in excitement, crowding each other and whispering a short distance away.

The friendly herd followed them, crowding the expectant mother.

Just as the leading German troops were approaching St Hubert the French again began to fire, their bullets plunging down among the fresh arrivals, who knowing nothing of what had taken place about St Hubert (where the remnant of their own infantry were still offering a desperate resistance) opened fire into the backs of their own men, and a fourth panic began which soon spread to the stragglers crowding the Mance ravine.

If the figure be photographed as a lantern slide which is mounted so as to turn round, the wave motion is excellently shown on the screen, the compressions and extensions being represented by the crowding in and opening out of the lines.

But All These Variants Together Are Mere Stray Curios Among The Crowding Souvenirs Of The Old Home Over Sea.

The first stage of his later development, which resulted in the establishment of the "Irvingite" or "Holy Catholic Apostolic Church," in 1832, was associated with conferences at his friend Henry Drummond's seat at Albury concerning unfulfilled prophecy, followed by an almost exclusive study of the prophetical books and especially of the Apocalypse, and by several series of sermons on prophecy both in London and the provinces, his apocalyptic lectures in 1828 more than crowding the largest churches of Edinburgh in the early summer mornings.

These sudden appearances of vast bodies of lemmings, and their singular habit of persistently pursuing the same onward course of migration, have given rise to various speculations, from the ancient belief of the Norwegian peasants, shared by Olaus Magnus, that they fall down from the clouds, to the hypothesis that they are acting in obedience to an instinct inherited from ancient times, and still seeking the congenial home in the submerged Atlantis, to which their ancestors of the Miocene period were wont to resort when driven from their ordinary dwelling-places by crowding or scarcity of food.

It is very necessary in the case of trees trained to a flat surface, as a wall or espalier rail, to prevent undue crowding.

In general, the fainter the stars included in the discussion the more marked is their crowding towards the galactic plane.

Various considerations tend to show that this apparent crowding does not imply a really greater density or clustering of the stars in space, but is due to the fact that in these directions we look through a greater depth of stars before coming to the boundary of the stellar system.

If, instead of considering the whole mass of stars, attention is directed to those of large proper motion, which are therefore in the mean relatively near us, the crowding to the galactic plane is much less noticeable, if not indeed entirely absent.

It is only when some of the stars considered are more remote and lie outside this sphere (but of course between the two planes) that there is a galactic crowding.

Nardus stricta (matweed), found on heaths and dry pastures, is a small perennial with slender rigid stem and leaves, it is a useless grass, crowding out better sorts.

Images came crowding on his mind faster than he could put them into words, quagmires and pits, steep hills, dark and horrible glens, soft vales, sunny pastures, a gloomy castle, of which the courtyard was strewn with the skulls and bones of murdered prisoners, a town all bustle and splendour, like London on the Lord Mayor's Day, and the narrow path, straight as a rule could make it, running on up hill and down hill, through city and through wilderness, to the Black River and the Shining Gate.

Larmor suggests is due to relaxation of the spring of the surrounding ether by reason of the crowding of the molecules; a shift of 0.17 tenth-metres would, if interpreted by Doppler's principle, have been read as a receding velocity of I I km.

Ambrose, perceiving that this crowding together merely enabled the contagion to spread, had the image secretly removed.

As spring merges into summer, sunny days become more frequent; the ever-increasing breadth of beeforage yields still more abundantly, and the excitement among the labourers crowding the hives increases, rendering room in advance, shade and ventilation, a sine qua non.

An ominous dust cloud was crowding out three quarters of the sky in the north west.

The green feathery foliage grows rapidly; can stand crowding.

The centre of retail trade moved steadily eastward, crowding out the large houses with spacious grounds which had made Euclid avenue famous.

They permitted themselves startling liberties when any one caressed them, crowding themselves almost into one's arms and helping themselves without ceremony to kisses, apparently unconscious of the impropriety of their conduct.

Many a lusty crest--waving Hector, that towered a whole foot above his crowding comrades, fell before my weapon and rolled in the dust.

Pierre drank one glass after another, looking from under his brows at the tipsy guests who were again crowding round the window, and listening to their chatter.

Soldiers scattered over the whole place were dragging logs and brushwood and were building shelters with merry chatter and laughter; around the fires sat others, dressed and undressed, drying their shirts and leg bands or mending boots or overcoats and crowding round the boilers and porridge cookers.

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