crowded
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
crowded
adj 1: overfilled or compacted or concentrated; "a crowded
theater"; "a crowded program"; "crowded trains"; "a young
mother's crowded days" [ant: {uncrowded}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Crowd \Crowd\ (kroud), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crowded}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Crowding}.] [OE. crouden, cruden, AS. cr[=u]dan; cf.
D. kruijen to push in a wheelbarrow.]
1. To push, to press, to shove. --Chaucer.
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2. To press or drive together; to mass together. "Crowd us
and crush us." --Shak.
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3. To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to
encumber by excess of numbers or quantity.
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The balconies and verandas were crowded with
spectators, anxious to behold their future
sovereign. --Prescott.
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4. To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat
discourteously or unreasonably. [Colloq.]
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{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.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
135 Moby Thesaurus words for "crowded":
alive with, angustifoliate, angustirostrate, angustisellate,
angustiseptal, at the double, awash, bloated, brimful, brimming,
bristling, bursting, chock-full, choked, circumscribed, close,
close-fitting, close-knit, close-textured, close-woven, compact,
compacted, compressed, concentrated, concrete, condensed, confined,
congested, consolidated, constricted, crammed, crammed full, cramp,
cramped, crawling, crowding, dense, distended, double-quick,
double-time, drenched, filled to overflowing, firm, full, gluey,
glutted, gorged, hard, hard-pressed, hard-pushed, hard-run, heavy,
hurried, hyperemic, impenetrable, impermeable, in profusion,
in spate, incapacious, incommodious, isthmian, isthmic, jam-packed,
jammed, lavish, limited, loaded, massive, meager, narrow, near,
nonporous, on the double, overblown, overburdened, overcharged,
overfed, overflowing, overfraught, overfreighted, overfull,
overladen, overloaded, overstocked, overstuffed, oversupplied,
overweighted, packed, plethoric, populous, pressed,
pressed for time, prodigal, profuse, proliferating, prolific,
pushed, ready to burst, restricted, rife, running over, rushed,
satiated, saturated, scant, scanty, serried, slender, soaked,
solid, strait, studded, stuffed, stuffed up, substantial,
superabundant, supercharged, supersaturated, surcharged, surfeited,
swarming, swollen, teeming, thick, thick as hail, thick with,
thick-coming, thick-growing, thickset, thronged, thronging, tight,
viscid, viscose, viscous
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