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| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : kroud |
| Phonetic Transcription : kraʊd |
Definition of crowding
Origin :- Old English crudan "to press, crush." Cognate with Middle Dutch cruden "to press, push," Middle High German kroten "to press, oppress," Norwegian kryda "to crowd." Related: Crowded; crowding.
- verb cram, press into area
- Between them, his days and nights were occupied to crowding.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- What was the use of all that noise and crowding and piggish hurry?
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- And pushing, crowding, hugging the side of the stall, Mortimer fought his way to the girl.
- Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
- Chip nodded, half suffocated with crowding, incredulous hopes.
- Extract from : « Chip, of the Flying U » by B. M. Bower
- There is a continual jostling, and crowding, and buzzing, and striving to get promotion.
- Extract from : « A Dish Of Orts » by George MacDonald
- The ridges with an increasing altitude were crowding in upon us more closely.
- Extract from : « The Long Labrador Trail » by Dillon Wallace
- A Minister was up, and people were crowding back into the Gallery.
- Extract from : « The Coryston Family » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
- There were at least a hundred men encamped in the narrow cleft, crowded and crowding.
- Extract from : « Slaves of Mercury » by Nat Schachner
- Men were crowding about Grim, clean-cut, determined-looking Earthmen.
- Extract from : « Slaves of Mercury » by Nat Schachner
- Beyond it the passageway was alive with crowding red figures.
- Extract from : « Two Thousand Miles Below » by Charles Willard Diffin
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