to overcrowd

Examples

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• The concert organizers decided to limit ticket sales to avoid overcrowding the venue.

• The reason for this, the papers reported, was overcrowding in the Cook County facility.

  Fiction book (1993)

• My troops will not impede your harvests nor overcrowd your cities.

• The company's gone a way toward providing a minimalist experience, not overcrowding things with flashy features that are unnecessary to core usage.

  Blog text (1)

• Overcrowding in schools, underfunding of arts programs, and the demands upon educators to do more with fewer resources have strained both budgets and imaginations.

  Academic text (1993)

• Next is Consummation: Nature is gone; the peak is barely visible; the harbor is full of commerce; a Greco-Roman city dominates the landscape with thousands of people overcrowding the streets.

  Blog text (18)

• To prevent overcrowding on the trains, the city implemented a new scheduling system.

• During the festival, many attendees complained about overcrowding in the main tent.

Synonyms

C

to crowd

vsto overcrowd

175 1.6

To move many people or animals into a small space

involves causing a place to become too full by adding people or things

O

to overrun

vsto overcrowd

38 4.8

Fill a place in large numbers and damage things

focuses on making a place too full rather than causing harm or invasion

O

to overpopulate

vsto overcrowd

8 5.4

Cause a place to have too many people or animals living there so it becomes crowded and cannot support them

means making a place too full in the short term by adding people

C

to clutter up

vsto overcrowd

7 4.2

To fill a space with too many things so it looks messy

refers to making a place too full rather than making it just untidy

O

to overfill

vsto overcrowd

3 3.9

To put too much into something so it spills out

focuses on making spaces too full by putting in too many items

O

to overstuff

vsto overcrowd

3 4.6

To put too much into something so it cannot close or is too full

refers to filling a place too full rather than bulging containers

O

to overplant

vsto overcrowd

1 6.8

Putting too many plants in a space so it becomes crowded

applies broadly to people or things rather than only to vegetation

Antonyms

E

to empty

179 1.0

To remove everything from a container or place

D

to decongest

5.2

To make a place less crowded by removing things that block it

How Crowded

to cram

16 3.2

to overcrowd

1 4.1

to crowd

175 1.6

to fill

∞ 1.0

to occupy

92 3.3

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology