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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Crowd \Crowd\ (kroud), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crowded}; p. pr & vb n. {Crowding}.] [OE. crouden cruden, AS cr?dan; cf D. kruijen to push in a wheelbarrow.] 1. To push to press, to shove. --Chaucer. 2. To press or drive together; to mass together. ``Crowd us and crush us.'' --Shak. 3. To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity. The balconies and verandas were crowded with spectators, anxious to behold their future sovereign. --Prescott. 4. To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence to treat discourteously or unreasonably. [Colloq.] {To crowd out}, to press out specifically, to prevent the publication of as the press of other matter crowded out the article. {To crowd sail} (Naut.), to carry an extraordinary amount of sail, with a view to accelerate the speed of a vessel; to carry a press of sail. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: crowding n : a situation in which people or things are crowded together; "he didn't like the crowding on the beach"
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