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CROWDED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Overfilled or compacted or concentrated
Example:
a young mother's crowded days
Classified under:
Similar:
huddled (crowded or massed together)
jam-packed; jammed; packed (extremely crowed or filled to capacity)
thronged (filled with great numbers crowded together)
Antonym:
uncrowded (having or allowing sufficient room)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb crowd
Context examples:
The area is crowded with low-energy X-ray sources, but their emission is very faint when you examine it at the energies that NuSTAR observes, so the new signal stands out.
(NASA's NuSTAR Captures Possible 'Screams' from Zombie Stars, NASA)
The bridge, no doubt, was too crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And then, on the crowded sidewalks there were persons innumerable whose attention he attracted.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The nuclei of precancerous lesions are distinct in that they become enlarged, crowded and hyperchromatic.
(Light-Scattering Spectroscopy, NCI Thesaurus)
Mr and Mrs Musgrove took me, and we were so crowded!
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Many of the company had crowded round the flames, for the weather was bitterly cold; but the two knights seated themselves upon a bancal, with their squires standing behind them.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The season was full, the room crowded, and the two ladies squeezed in as well as they could.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Mrs. Weston was afraid of draughts for the young people in that passage; and neither Emma nor the gentlemen could tolerate the prospect of being miserably crowded at supper.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
He sat slowly down, blew out his chest, passed his hand caressingly down his beard, and looked with drooping eyelids and supercilious eyes at the crowded hall before him.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Amid the crowded millions of London the three persons we sought were as completely obliterated as if they had never lived.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
