In the U.S., there are more prisoners than there is jail space for them. So the prisons are overcrowded.
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Overcrowded
Synonyms for "overcrowded" (2 found)
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1 entriesTranslations
26 translations across 12 languages.
Catalan
2 entries- massificat adj (Containing too many occupants)
- superpoblat adj (Containing too many occupants)
French
4 entries- bondé adj (Containing too many occupants)
- surchargé adj (Containing too many occupants)
- surfréquenté adj (Containing too many occupants)
- surpeuplé adj (Containing too many occupants)
German
1 entries- überfüllt adj (Containing too many occupants)
Hungarian
1 entries- túlzsúfolt adj (Containing too many occupants)
Māori
1 entries- whakaapiapi adj (Containing too many occupants)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- overfylt adj (Containing too many occupants)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- overfylt adj (Containing too many occupants)
Polish
4 entries- przeludniony adj (Containing too many occupants)
- przepełniony adj (Containing too many occupants)
- stłoczony adj (Containing too many occupants)
- zatłoczony adj (Containing too many occupants)
Portuguese
2 entries- sobrelotado adj (Containing too many occupants)
- superlotado adj (Containing too many occupants)
Russian
1 entries- перепо́лненный adj (Containing too many occupants)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- prenapučen adj (Containing too many occupants)
- пренапучен adj (Containing too many occupants)
Spanish
4 entries- abarrotado adj (Containing too many occupants)
- atestado adj (Containing too many occupants)
- atiborrado adj (Containing too many occupants)
- hacinado adj (Containing too many occupants)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
He organized his overcrowded schedule and managed to come to see my performance.
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The jail is overcrowded.
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A queer notion of Grant Allen's came into my head, and amused me. If each generation die and leave ghosts, he argued, the world at last will get overcrowded with them.
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