crowd
verb/kraʊd/
/kraʊd/
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they crowd | /kraʊd/ /kraʊd/ |
| he / she / it crowds | /kraʊdz/ /kraʊdz/ |
| past simple crowded | /ˈkraʊdɪd/ /ˈkraʊdɪd/ |
| past participle crowded | /ˈkraʊdɪd/ /ˈkraʊdɪd/ |
| -ing form crowding | /ˈkraʊdɪŋ/ /ˈkraʊdɪŋ/ |
- crowd something to fill a place so there is little room to move
- Thousands of people crowded the narrow streets.
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- crowd something to fill your mind so that you can think of nothing else
- Memories crowded his mind.
- crowd somebody (informal) to stand very close to somebody so that they feel uncomfortable or nervous
Word OriginOld English crūdan ‘press, hasten’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kruien ‘push in a wheelbarrow’. In Middle English the senses ‘move by pushing’ and ‘push one's way’ arose, leading to the sense ‘congregate’, and hence (mid 16th cent.) to the noun.
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