overcrowd

[ UK /ˌə‍ʊvəkɹˈa‍ʊd/ ]
[ US /ˌoʊvɝˈkɹaʊd/ ]
VERB
  1. crowd together too much
  2. cause to crowd together too much
    The students overcrowded the cafeteria
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How To Use overcrowd In A Sentence

  • An American family of eight has gone missing while driving from Michigan to Alaska and police believe they may be somewhere in northern B.C. Several families with loved ones who are mentally ill are speaking out about what they call a decrepit, overcrowded, ineffective psychiatric facility at Vancouver General Hospital. CBC | Top Stories News
  • At least five people were killed when an overcrowded migrant boat capsized last month which was dramatically caught on camera by Italian coastguards. The Sun
  • The hospital is so overcrowded that some patients are being treated on trolleys in the corridors.
  • Our foreign correspondent reports that conditions in the refugee camps are filthy and overcrowded.
  • The city was overcrowded with tall skyscrapers and noisy vehicles of all sorts.
  • Our already overcrowded court rooms could be swamped with such otherwise upright and law abiding citizens.
  • Patients are languishing on trolleys in record numbers as ministers disagree with doctors about whether people have any alternative to attending overcrowded A&E units. Times, Sunday Times
  • Those scientific minds brave enough to point out these obvious flaws get fired, while the insane, lazy, and stupid continue to uphold a broken system that clearly doesn't work, punishes innocent citizens, overcrowds prisons, and generally increases suffering. Allison Kilkenny: Government Adviser Fired For Saying Alcohol Is More Dangerous Than Drugs
  • For families in the poverty trap this was a year of suffering with increased rentals driving families to share houses in overcrowded conditions and stress making more families dysfunctional.
  • The idleness and overcrowding led to rioting in four state prisons in 1985 that left an inmate dead.
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