overcrowded

English

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

Verb

overcrowded

1. simple past and past participle of overcrowd

Etymology 2

From over- +‎ crowded.

Adjective

overcrowded (comparative more overcrowded, superlative most overcrowded)

1. Containing too many occupants for an area of its size.
   • 2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 79:

     I've spent hours on overcrowded trains, and time on ones which were almost empty, because the recovery [from COVID] has been uneven.

Translations

Containing too many occupants

• Catalan: superpoblat, massificat (ca)
• French: surpeuplé (fr), bondé (fr), surchargé (fr), surfréquenté (fr) m
• German: überfüllt (de)
• Hungarian: túlzsúfolt (hu)
• Maori: whakaapiapi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: overfylt

  Nynorsk: overfylt

• Portuguese: sobrelotado, superlotado (pt)
• Russian: перепо́лненный (ru) (perepólnennyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пренапучен

  Roman: prenapučen (sh)

• Spanish: superpoblado (es), atestado (es), abarrotado (es), hacinado (es) m, atiborrado (es) m, masificado (es) m