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Vinony

overcrowded

adjective

  1. crowd together too much
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Wiktionary

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English crowded English overcrowded From over- + crowded.

  1. Containing too many occupants for an area of its size.

    “I've spent hours on overcrowded trains, and time on ones which were almost empty, because the recovery [from COVID] has been uneven.”

verb

Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

  1. simple past and past participle of overcrowd