to crowd out
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4.9
- phrasal verb
- /kraʊd aʊt/
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- The loud music at the party began to crowd out all other conversations.
- crowd out native plants
- crowd out beneficial aquatic plants
So the best way to overcome that is to crowd it out with good things.
- So the best way to overcome that is to crowd it out with good things.
- In terms of the content, in terms of the content, the specific crowds out the general.
- And that is what gets crowded out by government central planners claiming they're there to help.
- You have some balance of reactive work and reflective work, but most people, they let the reactive work crowd out all the reflection.
- Those people seem to have the capacity to crowd out bad habits by focusing on cultivating new positive habits.
- Just lean into it, get started, crowd out the old stuff with the with the cleaner versions of the proteins and you'll find your you'll find your way.
- And at what point does hateful free speech crowd out other, other people, right?
Examples
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Finally, military actions tend to crowd out attention to other dimensions of foreign policy.
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Since then, saltcedar has crowded out native trees like willows and cottonwoods along parts of nearly every western river.
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So the best way to overcome that is to crowd it out with good things.
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But my experience and part of the risk I have when I go into a project is that it tends to crowd out other things.
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We also know that high levels of government spending crowd out private consumption.
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In addition, interest expense would become so large as to crowd out whole categories of federal spending.
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The pace and pressure of work frequently crowd out space for sustained reflection and efforts to do things differently.
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In the parlance of economics, federal grants "crowd out" assistance that might otherwise come from private sources or states.
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You have some balance of reactive work and reflective work, but most people, they let the reactive work crowd out all the reflection.
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Since 1983, airwaves and vinyl have been saturated with rock sounds, which have crowded out other styles.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
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3.0
Force someone to leave a place or group
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3.8
Force someone or something to leave a place
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4.4
To make someone leave a job by pressure or threats
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6.2
Force someone to leave a group or place because others reject them
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7.4
Make someone leave a group or job in a public, shameful way
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4.0
To force someone to leave a place, group or job
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7.1
To force someone or something out of a place by searching
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8.2
Force someone to leave a place or job
Antonyms
How Displaced
- Offensive
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5.6
194
5.0
80
6.2
10
4.9
70
3.8
16
3.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to force someone or something out by being more numerous or prominent' is directly compositional from 'crowd' (to press or gather densely) + 'out' (movement or exclusion). This verb+particle pattern is a regular, cross-linguistic way to express forcing something outward or excluding it, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should be able to infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The phrasal verb crowd out comes from the simple image of a group pushing into a space so much that someone or something is pushed out. So when a crowd fills a place and pushes out others, the phrase means 'to force someone or something out by being more in number or stronger'.