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overcrowd

[oh-ver-kroud]

Origin

verb (used with object), verb (used without object)

to crowd to an uncomfortable or undesirable excess.

Origin:
1760–70; over- + crowd¹

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overcrowd (ˌəʊvəˈkraʊd)

—vb
	(tr) to fill (a room, vehicle, city, etc) with more people or things than is desirable

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overcrowd

1766, from over + crowd.

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