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1. Overfilled, compacted or concentrated
   "a crowded theatre"; "a crowded program"; "crowded trains"; "a young mother's crowded days"

1. Cause to herd, drive, or crowd together
   "We crowded the children into a spare classroom";
   - herd
    
2. Fill or occupy to the point of overflowing
   "The students crowded the auditorium"
    
3. To gather together in large numbers
   "men in straw boaters and waxed moustaches crowded the verandah";
   - crowd together
    
4. Approach a certain age or speed
   "She is crowding fifty";
   - push

See also: huddled, jammed, jam-packed [informal], packed, packed out, thronged

Type of: approach, assemble, come near, come on, displace, draw close, draw near, fill, foregather, forgather, gather, go up, meet, move, near, occupy

Antonym: uncrowded

Encyclopedia: Crowded