crowded
filled to excess; packed.
filled with a crowd: crowded streets.
uncomfortably close together: crowded passengers on a bus.
Origin of crowded
1Other words from crowded
- crowd·ed·ly, adverb
- o·ver·crowd·ed, adjective
- o·ver·crowd·ed·ly, adverb
- o·ver·crowd·ed·ness, noun
- un·crowd·ed, adjective
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How to use crowded in a sentence
She famously hired a plane to fly the banner “Silvio, we miss you” over crowded Italian beaches last summer.
Berlusconi Announces May-December Engagement | Barbie Latza Nadeau | December 17, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe few free hospitals are already over-crowded and ill-prepared.
John Ingerfield and Other Stories | Jerome K. JeromeThe hospital was clean and well fitted up, but over-crowded with sick.
At the Rand Club there was so large a collection of Reformers, that the carriages, even over-crowded, could not carry them all.
A Woman's Part in a Revolution | Natalie Harris HammondLady Barbara decided within a few minutes of her arrival that the party was over-crowded and tiresome.
Lady Lilith | Stephen McKenna
The small boat was now over crowded, and it was with difficulty the girls managed to give the boy sufficient room.
The Girl Scouts at Sea Crest | Lillian Garis
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