Meaning

1 senses

  1. To fill beyond reasonable limits, with people, animals, objects or information.

More definitions
  • crowd together too much
  • cause to crowd together too much

Examples

24 sentences

  1. Many prisons are overcrowded.

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  2. The refugee camps are overcrowded.

    ruЛагеря беженцев переполнены.

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  3. The jail is overcrowded.

    ruТюрьма переполнена.

    deDas Gefängnis ist überfüllt.

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  4. An overcrowded trolleybus arrived at the stop.

    До зупинки під'їхав переповнений тролейбус.

    ruК остановке подошёл переполненный троллейбус.

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  5. Prisons are overcrowded.

    ruТюрьмы переполнены.

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Translations

4 languages

Forms

overcrowds, overcrowding, overcrowded, overcrowded
Base formovercrowd · to overcrowd
3rd person singularovercrowds
Present participleovercrowding
Past simpleovercrowded
Past participleovercrowded

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyovercrowd
he, she, itovercrowds

Past simpleLesson

all personsovercrowded

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave overcrowded
he, she, ithas overcrowded

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill overcrowd

Word family

2 related words
Relatedover-crowding
Derivedovercrowder

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
overcomeB1overconfidentovercookoverdooverdoseoverdraftC1
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