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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



... out from the crowding walls I have seen the gibbets grow, And stand against the empty sky In a desolate, windblown row, While their dancers swayed, and turned, and spun, Tripping ...
— Carolina Chansons - Legends of the Low Country • DuBose Heyward and Hervey Allen
... once into his mind passed the hush and softness of the snow—yet with it a searching, crying wildness for the heights. He knew by some incalculable, swift instinct she would not meet him in the village street. It was not there, amid crowding houses, she would speak to him. Indeed, already she had disappeared, melted from view up the white vista of the moonlit road. Yonder, he divined, she waited where the highway narrowed abruptly into the mountain path ...
— Four Weird Tales • Algernon Blackwood
... of the bank had been washed out from under the top layer of roots and grass, and when so many stamping, crowding girls brought their weight upon the crumbling ground, it caved in with them. Jumping, screaming, tumbling scouts now went headlong down the slide of ...
— Girl Scouts in the Adirondacks • Lillian Elizabeth Roy
... Virginia, and, in plans for the third and largest expedition sent under Sir Thomas Gates and Sir George Somers in 1609, provision was made to include experienced men, so that malt liquors could be brewed in the Colony and thus, the necessity of crowding the ships with such supplies generally ...
— Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century - Jamestown 350th Anniversary Historical Booklet Number 17 • Annie Lash Jester
... when she was gone, thought after thought crowding fast upon him, and half bewildering him by their intensity. He could answer Louise's question now! It had come to him at last, sitting there with Mr. Trevor's letter in his hand, and Dora at his feet. Dora who was so dear to him, and his first ...
— Dora Deane • Mary J. Holmes


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