overcrowd

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to fill a place, vehicle, or system with more people or things than it can comfortably or safely hold

   Extra admissions could overcrowd the hospital's already busy wards.

2. 2
   verb

   to gather in excessive numbers and make a place too crowded

   Visitors tend to overcrowd the narrow streets during the summer festival.

Formed in English from over- ('excessively; beyond a limit') + crowd. The verb applies the idea of crowding beyond a place's comfortable, practical, or safe capacity.

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