Synonyms for crowding
verb cram, press into areaAntonyms for crowding
Word Origin & History
Old English crudan "to press, crush." Cognate with Middle Dutch cruden "to press, push," Middle High German kroten "to press, oppress," Norwegian kryda "to crowd." Related: Crowded; crowding.
Example Sentences forcrowding
Between them, his days and nights were occupied to crowding.
What was the use of all that noise and crowding and piggish hurry?
And pushing, crowding, hugging the side of the stall, Mortimer fought his way to the girl.
Chip nodded, half suffocated with crowding, incredulous hopes.
There is a continual jostling, and crowding, and buzzing, and striving to get promotion.
The ridges with an increasing altitude were crowding in upon us more closely.
A Minister was up, and people were crowding back into the Gallery.
Men were crowding about Grim, clean-cut, determined-looking Earthmen.
There were at least a hundred men encamped in the narrow cleft, crowded and crowding.
Beyond it the passageway was alive with crowding red figures.