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overcrowded

Word definitions for overcrowded in dictionaries

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES overcrowded/crowded conditions ▪ Families here are living in dirty, overcrowded conditions. EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ overcrowded prisons ▪ The buses are filthy and overcrowded . EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ After ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Containing too many occupants for an area of its size. v (en-past of: overcrowd )

Usage examples of overcrowded.

Now, as the Acoma retinue passed between the overcrowded tenements, the spicy, smoke-scented air that issued from the dens of the drug-flower sellers became prevalent.

Jeremiah was brought to the overcrowded jail filled, not with angry miners, but drunken men clodhopping and singing in off-key voices.

So, rather than syphilis being a counterexample of the generally one-way course of epidemic disease, it confirms that the development of epidemics requires social conditions typical of overcrowded civilization.

Lubin gave thanks for cells forcibly overcrowded with mitochondria, for trimeric antibodies, for macrophage and lymphokine and fibroblast production cranked up to twice the mammalian norm.

Our Galera was overcrowded then, and 150 men had to use the two toilets all at once.

For a moment, Katherine wished she were back in the small apartment she and Herm had occupied, on an overcrowded world where everyone was very careful to be polite, lest the peace officers cite them with a civil violation and fine them.

Offensive to many, but a welcome scandal as far as the overcrowded messdecks were concerned.

Apollo Moonshot program, compares our tiny, overcrowded world to a solitary spaceship on which 4,500 million astronauts are aimlessly journeying to an unknown destination.

It would be a good country to settle in, I thought, and after the overcrowded ship, after the grime and damp of Liverpool, Anna and Heinrich must be thinking Captain Forbes had brought them to heaven after their suffering on the long, desperate voyage.

It had become a mark of good manners, and thoseas Awb knew from his few visits to shorewere far from a luxury in the overcrowded conditions of a fixed city.

Like the Cubans, the Haitians were so desperate that they set out for Florida in flimsy, overcrowded crafts.

Party less than six months ago find themselves skulking around like old winos in the side alleys of presidential politics -- first stripped of their power to select and control delegations, then rejected as delegates themselves when Big Ed took his overcrowded bandwagon over the high side on the first lap.

It was fun, but overcrowded, for the rest of Pomerania had gone there too.

The problem was that the med facility was so overcrowded that some of the survivors had to be relocated to bacta wards in the annex.

And Spuggy fished in the depths of his own overcrowded pockets, and produced a longish, flat wad of what looked like disintegrating plaster, and on the surface, indeed, was nothing else.