overcrowded

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Verb

overcrowded

  1. simple past and past participle of overcrowd

Adjective

overcrowded (comparative more overcrowded, superlative most overcrowded)

  1. Containing too many occupants for an area of its size.
    • 2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 79:
      I've spent hours on overcrowded trains, and time on ones which were almost empty, because the recovery [from COVID] has been uneven.

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