overcrowd

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ crowd.

Pronunciation

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Verb

overcrowd (third-person singular simple present overcrowds, present participle overcrowding, simple past and past participle overcrowded)

1. 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.

Derived terms

• overcrowder

Translations

to fill beyond reasonable limits

Bulgarian: претъпквам (bg) (pretǎpkvam) Hungarian: túlzsúfol (hu), túlnépesít (hu) Italian: affollare (it) Maori: opuru Polish: zatłaczać impf, zatłoczyć pf, przepełniać impf, przepełnić (pl) pf Portuguese: sobrelotar, superlotar (pt)