Usually means: Excessively fill a space with people.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word Overcrowd:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. overcrowd: Merriam-Webster
  2. overcrowd: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. overcrowd: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. overcrowd: Collins English Dictionary
  5. overcrowd: Vocabulary.com
  6. overcrowd: Wordnik
  7. overcrowd: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. overcrowd: Wiktionary
  9. overcrowd: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. overcrowd: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. overcrowd: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Overcrowd, overcrowd: Dictionary.com
  13. overcrowd: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Overcrowd: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. overcrowd: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. overcrowd: Rhymezone
  17. Overcrowd: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. overcrowd: FreeDictionary.org
  19. overcrowd: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. overcrowd: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overcrowd: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overcrowd: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (overcrowd)

▸ verb:  To fill beyond reasonable limits, with people, animals, objects or information.

Similar:
overpopulate, overfill, overpeople, overburden, overcram, overflow, overlade, overload, overcharge, overflood, more...

Opposite:
underpopulate, sparsely populated, uncrowded, unpopulated

Types:
jam-packed, swamped, teeming, overflowing, bursting, more...
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Similar:
overpopulate, overfill, overpeople, overburden, overcram, overflow, overlade, overload, overcharge, overflood, more...

Opposite:
underpopulate, sparsely populated, uncrowded, unpopulated

Types:
jam-packed, swamped, teeming, overflowing, bursting, more...



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