crowding

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɹaʊdɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -aʊdɪŋ

Verb

crowding

1. present participle and gerund of crowd

Noun

crowding (plural crowdings)

1. The act by which somebody is crowded.
   • 1832, Thomas Carlyle, “Boswell's Life of Johnson”, in Fraser's Magazine:

     To Johnson Life was as a Prison, to be endured with heroic faith: to Hume it was little more than a foolish Bartholomew-Fair Show-booth, with the foolish crowdings and elbowings of which it was not worth while to quarrel […]

Derived terms

• anticrowding
• crowdingly