crowded
adjective
[ ˈkraʊdɪd ]
• (of a space) full of people, leaving little or no room for movement; packed.
• "a very crowded room"
crowd
verb
• (of a number of people) fill (a space) almost completely, leaving little or no room for movement.
• "the dance floor was crowded with revellers"
Similar:
throng,
pack,
jam,
cram,
fill,
overfill,
congest,
pervade,
occupy all of,
packed,
congested,
crushed,
cramped,
overcrowded,
full,
filled to capacity,
full to bursting,
overfull,
overflowing,
teeming,
swarming,
thronged,
populous,
overpopulated,
overpeopled,
busy,
mobbed,
stuffed,
jam-packed,
chock-a-block,
chock-full,
bursting at the seams,
bulging at the seams,
full to the gunwales,
wall-to-wall,
heaving,
chocker,
• move too close to (someone).
• "don't crowd her, she needs air"
• exclude someone or something by taking their place.
• "rampant plants will crowd out the less vigorous"
Origin:
Old English crūdan ‘press, hasten’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kruien ‘push in a wheelbarrow’. In Middle English the senses ‘move by pushing’ and ‘push one's way’ arose, leading to the sense ‘congregate’, and hence (mid 16th century) to the noun.
