Overcrowding

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The situation where a space holds more occupants than it can comfortably accommodate. countable, uncountable

    "[…] there are sublettings, overcrowdings of lands, clearances, and emigrations going on; and want of employment, with consequent destitution and wretchedness is the complaint of the majority of the inhabitants."

  2. 2
    excessive crowding wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of overcrowd form-of, gerund, participle, present

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congestionover-crowding

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"We need to address the overcrowding among the refugees immediately otherwise more will die as summer approaches."

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