crowding

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkɹaʊdɪŋ/
  • Rhymes: -aʊdɪŋ

Verb

crowding

  1. present participle and gerund of crowd

Noun

crowding (plural crowdings)

  1. The act by which somebody is crowded.
    • 1832, Thomas Carlyle, “Boswell's Life of Johnson”, in Fraser's Magazine:
      To Johnson Life was as a Prison, to be endured with heroic faith: to Hume it was little more than a foolish Bartholomew-Fair Show-booth, with the foolish crowdings and elbowings of which it was not worth while to quarrel […]
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