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English
Etymology
From over- + crowd.
Pronunciation
Verb
overcrowd (third-person singular simple present overcrowds, present participle overcrowding, simple past and past participle overcrowded)
- To fill beyond reasonable limits, with people, animals, objects or information.
1961 January, “The North-East London electrification of the Great Eastern Line”, in Trains Illustrated, page 19:The host of business travellers between Bishops Stortford and London would scarcely take kindly to devious routing via the Southbury line; on the other hand, it is not desirable that they should overcrowd the business trains to and from Cambridge.
Translations
to fill beyond reasonable limits