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overcrowd Definition

over·crowd (ō′vər kro̵ud)

transitive verb

to crowd with too many people or things
overcrowd Synonyms

overcrowd

v.

crowd, stuff, fill; see pack 2, press 1.

overcrowd Usage Examples

Object

  • slum: Despite such prosperity, the tremendous economic changes left many of its urban poor living in overcrowded slums.
  • jail: Instead of filling cells in overcrowded jails, the immigrants will serve their sentences overseas.
  • graveyard: Indeed, by the 1850s there was widespread concern over the " threat to health and decency " caused by the overcrowded graveyards.
  • tenement: Also the overcrowded tenements of the cities were a perfect breeding ground for smallpox.
  • prison: The lesson of Brixton is simple, large overcrowded prisons simply do not work.
  • shed: Poultry are fattened in overcrowded sheds, without natural light.

Preposition: at

  • end: Of these, nine were overcrowded at the end of April.

Noun phrase with adjective complement

  • such: Lift and divide poor flowering or overcrowded herbaceous plants such as Aster, Phlox, Campanula, Achillea and Artemisia.

Adjective complement

  • due: The schools that the children attended were often overcrowded due to the influx of evacuees.

Modifying Another Word

  • statutorily: We may need to visit your house to carry out an inspection if you are statutorily overcrowded.
  • grossly: Deaf students fail in Britain's grossly overcrowded public sector classrooms.
  • hopelessly: He had to drive several times through the hopelessly overcrowded heart of the city.
  • dangerously: In the 1840's and early 1850's church graveyards were becoming dangerously overcrowded and some posed a health risk.
  • severely: The council is also working with the 16 most severely overcrowded council tenants in the boro who are lacking three or more bedrooms.
  • seriously: Many clinics are seriously overcrowded, leading to delays for patients.

Present participle complement

  • live: Among the most common are poverty, overcrowded living conditions, physical and sexual abuse and parental drug abuse.

Preposition: in

  • summer: Swimming and diving are popular, although beaches tend to be overcrowded in summer.

Preposition: with

  • people: But these quickly became hopelessly overcrowded with people who could no longer find shelter in their own burning buildings.
  • information: It must not be overcrowded with too much information -- you can always give more details to people who express interest in the work.
  • refugee: The city was known to be overcrowded with some 200,000 refugees, mainly peasants from Silesia fleeing the Red Army.