Word Finder - crowded

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To press forward; to advance by pushing.

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The man crowded into the packed room.

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To press together or collect in numbers

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They crowded through the archway and into the park.

synonyms

• crowd in
• swarm
• throng

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

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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.

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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.

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To play on a crowd; to fiddle.

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Containing too many of something; teeming.

The men crowded together round the campfires.

Must be crowded here today.

Where the street had been vacant during the day, they were crowded at night.

He strode through the crowded Egyptian street market, the Khan al-Khalili, one of the oldest markets in the world.

Almost every dwelling on the narrow, crowded road was in pieces.

The Quincys wandered into the crowded parlor.

Dawn and Random snorted and crowded close to Princess.

There was a rest area at the summit already crowded with rid­ers.

The other customers crowded the back with Deidre.

Jackson chose a bar that wouldn't be too crowded at this hour.

Traci joined them, coffee in hand, and they merged into the crowded mall.

Several shopkeepers crowded round the officer.

I must have cried out as everyone crowded around the single viewing unit.

The room was crowded with small pieces of furniture, whatnots, cupboards, and little tables.

She stopped in the doorway of the main house leading onto the crowded lawn, aghast.

She made her way to the hallway and breathed more easily in the less crowded space.

In the country one sees only Nature's fair works, and one's soul is not saddened by the cruel struggle for mere existence that goes on in the crowded city.

There were wounded in the yards, at the windows of the houses, and the streets were crowded with them.

She crowded Darkyn's mate.

Telluride's sixty-six trails, spread over more than a thousand acres, were an awesome change from the crowded slopes Dean had skied in the East in years gone by.

The boy ran through the crowded marketplace, dodging merchants' carts and weaving through the patrons.

This only means that the equipotential surfaces are crowded together, just as they are near the ridge of a house.

The hussars and Cossacks crowded round the prisoners; one offered them clothes, another boots, and a third bread.

Selyn crowded her, almost tripping them both by how close she was.

On an uphill stretch, swarming with traffic and crowded by roadside construction, I clicked off the overdrive for a little more torque.

In its smaller manifestation, this class of folding passes into "crumpling" or "puckering," where quite a large number of folds may be crowded into a single hand specimen.

The doughty men who were to do the job were crowded around a glowing brazier which Dad had thoughtfully lit for them.

As a tourist Mecca, the city is busy and often crowded.

Jim and the buggy followed, the old cab-horse being driven by Zeb while the Wizard stood up on the seat and bowed his bald head right and left in answer to the cheers of the people, who crowded thick about him.

A great number of people crowded in front of the conflagration.

Among the monastic orders, whose crowded common life seems to have been particularly favorable to the spread of the plague, there were cases where a whole community, from the abbot down to the novices, perished.

The people, destitute of other means of livelihood, crowded to the relief works.

The only noteworthy buildings are the large, crowded and well-furnished bazaars with leaden domes.

Worshippers crowded to the churches; the emigres returned by thousands; and Anti-Jacobin outbreaks, followed by massacre, took place in the south.

At the base of each spikelet are two empty boat-shaped glumes or "chaff-scales," one to the right, the other to the left, and then a series of flowers, 2 to 8 in number, closely crowded together; the uppermost are abortive or sterile, - indeed, in some varieties only one or two of the flowers are fertile.

They are crowded together and therefore rendered shorter and more frequent by the advance of their source, but drawn apart and lengthened by its recession.

Halophila, Enhalus and Thalassia are submerged maritime plants found on tropical coasts, mainly in the Indian and Pacific oceans; Halophila has an elongated stem rooting at the nodes; Enhalus a short, thick rhizome, clothed with black threads resembling horse-hair, the persistent hard-bast strands of the leaves; Thalassia has a creeping rooting stem with upright branches bearing crowded strap-shaped leaves in two rows.

The picturesque old town occupies an outlying ridge of the Croatian Karst; while the modern town, with its wharves, warehouses, electric light and electric trams, is crowded into the amphitheatre left between the hills and the shore.

Upon this torus the parts of the flower are arranged in a crowded manner, usually forming a series of verticils, the parts of which alternate; but they are sometimes arranged spirally especially if the floral axis be elongated.

These are usually densely crowded upon the thalamus, but in some instances, after apical growth has ceased in the axis, an elongation of portions of the receptacle by intercalary growth occurs, by which changes in the position of the parts may be brought about.

In Asterophyllites., the generic distinction of which from Annularia is not always clear, the narrow linear leaves are in crowded whorls, and the ultimate branches distichously arranged; in the Calamocladus of Grand' Eury - characteristic of the Upper Coal Measures - the whorls are more remote, and the twigs polystichous in arrangement.

The usually crowded leaf-cushions are spirally arranged, and present no obvious orthostichies, thus differing from those of Sigillaria.

A number of hairy linear bracts enclose the whole; internal to these occur 12 to 20 crowded pinnate leaves (sporophylls), with their apical portions bent over towards the axis of the flower, the bases of the petioles being fused laterally into a disk surrounding the base of the conical receptacle.

A flora consisting entirely, with a single doubtful exception, of Gymnosperms and Cryptogams gives place to one containing many flowering plants; and these increase so rapidly that before long they seem to have crowded out many of the earlier types, and to have themselves become the dominant forms. Not only do Angiosperms suddenly become dominant in all known plantbearing deposits of Upper Cretaceous age, but strangely enough the earliest found seem to belong to living orders, and commonly have been referred to existing genera.

This difficulty will disappear as the strata become better known; but at present each of the silted-up lakes has to be studied separately, for we cannot expect so close a correspondence in their faunas and floras as is found in the more crowded and smaller basins in central Europe.

These horrors were enacted by day, in a thoroughfare crowded with "respectable" citizens sheltered from the rain by umbrellas.

During the busy season of rice-export, which lasts from the end of December to the middle of May, the pool forming the port of Rangoon presents almost as crowded a scene as the Hugli at Calcutta.

He then dined at a restaurant, which he frequently changed, to avoid the influx of strangers, who crowded to see and hear him.

I searched the faces at baggage claim, one of many in the crowded facility, but didn't spot her.

Some vamps raced out of the hall while others crowded around them, the Black God forgotten.