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overcrowded adjective [ əʊvəˈkraʊdɪd ]

• (of accommodation or a space) filled beyond what is comfortable, safe, or desirable.
• "infectious diseases can spread in overcrowded prisons"

overcrowd verb

• fill (accommodation or a space) beyond what is comfortable, safe, or desirable.
• "employees were assigned to make sure people didn't overcrowd the escalators"
Similar: overfull, overflowing, full to overflowing/bursting, crammed full, cram-full, jammed, packed like sardines, congested, choked, overloaded, overpopulated, overpeopled, overrun, crowded, thronged, swarming, teeming, bursting/bulging at the seams, full to the gunwales, jam-packed, heaving, like Piccadilly Circus,
Opposite: deserted, empty, vacant,


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