Crowding

//ˈkɹaʊdɪŋ// noun, verb

noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act by which somebody is crowded.

    "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[…]"

  2. 2
    a situation in which people or things are crowded together wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of crowd form-of, gerund, participle, present

Synonyms

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alivebristlingburstingcrawlingcrowdedjam packed

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"I have to pee, but your friends are completely crowding the hallway."

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