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English Dictionary: crowded	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for crowded
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
crowded adj overfilled or compacted or concentrated; "a crowded theater"; "a crowded program"; "crowded trains"; "a young mother's crowded days" Antonym(s): uncrowded
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. [bd]Crowd us and crush us.[b8] --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.