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Crowding   /krˈaʊdɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Crowd  v. t.  (past & past part. crowded; pres. part. crowding)  
1.
To push, to press, to shove.
2.
To press or drive together; to mass together. "Crowd us and crush us."
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."
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.


Crowd  v. t.  To play on a crowd; to fiddle. (Obs.) "Fiddlers, crowd on."


Crowd  v. i.  
1.
To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng. "The whole company crowded about the fire." "Images came crowding on his mind faster than he could put them into words."
2.
To urge or press forward; to force one's self; as, a man crowds into a room.





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"Crowding" Quotes from Famous Books



... lovely manikins on the wall; Squall after squall, Gust upon crowding gust, It sweeps them willy nilly like blown dust With ...
— Behind the Arras - A Book of the Unseen • Bliss Carman
... the mouth not obstructed, and lighting our candles, we entered. Sometimes crawling on our hands and knees over fallen rock with scarcely a foot of extra room above our heads, then stooping low, then walking upright, again crawling between huge masses of rock and earth, and crowding between slanting monoliths, we made our way through the mud and water dripping on ...
— Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania • Jewett Castello Gilson
... the crew crowding to the rail. There was a large number for even a sailing vessel of these times, and I more than half suspected the nature of her business before a rope ladder was let down to me and I scrambled up the tall side of the craft with the bight of my sloop's painter over my shoulder ...
— Swept Out to Sea - Clint Webb Among the Whalers • W. Bertram Foster
... could not make else of them—leaping the brook, crowding the pent enclosure, hasting to the arched exit, were plainly in view. Men almost naked, burned to hue of brick-dust; men in untanned sheepskin coats and mantles; men with every kind of headgear, turbans, handkerchiefs, cowls; men with hair and beard ...
— The Prince of India - Or - Why Constantinople Fell - Volume 1 • Lew. Wallace
... are used to crowding into very small spaces, indeed. Sometimes a man and his wife and all his children will live in a space about the size of ...
— The Eskimo Twins • Lucy Fitch Perkins


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