overcrowd

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.