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overcrowded

/oh-ver-kroud/US // ˌoʊ vərˈkraʊd //UK // (ˌəʊvəˈkraʊd) //

人满为患,拥挤不堪,拥挤不堪的,拥挤的

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Definitions

  1. 1
    • : to crowd to an uncomfortable or undesirable excess.

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Examples

  • On the Portrait Gallery side, the often-overcrowded presidential galleries benefit from visitor limits as well.

  • One way to get around the issue of too many items overcrowding the plate is to limit yourself to just a few ingredients that offer a diverse range of contrasting profiles.

  • Walmart is opting for three separate, major sales events in November, rather than one big blowout around Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday to avoid overcrowding stores, a strategy followed by its close rival.

  • Bending time with technology, it turns out, is one of flexible density’s secret weapons for sharing the city without overcrowding.

  • Researchers think Manaus’s epidemic may have been fueled by overcrowding, limited access to clean water, and reliance on crowded boat travel.

  • Ippoliti says that the centers should close because many are overcrowded and unsafe.

  • Overcrowded and strapped for workers, there was not a single medical facility that could take her.

  • The overcrowded school where the family had sought refuge was a scene of despair and squalor.

  • None has ever left the narrow and overcrowded 40-kilometer strip of land called Gaza.

  • Her voice trailed off and she looked out on to the road, overcrowded with traffic and dirty.

  • It would be like opening the windows upon a stuffy, overcrowded and unventilated room of disputing people.

  • The result is streets of overcrowded homes unsuitable for family life.

  • The homes were too small, too overcrowded to give social opportunity to the family.

  • She was born into a house probably overcrowded before she came into it; she slept, ate, lived with crowds.

  • The South has a milder climate, nature requires less labor for production, and the commercial centres are not overcrowded.