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overcrowding

noun

  1. crowd together too much
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Wiktionary

noun

  1. The situation where a space holds more occupants than it can comfortably accommodate.

    […] there are sublettings, overcrowdings of lands, clearances, and emigrations going on; and want of employment, with consequent destitution and wretchedness is the complaint of the majority of the inhabitants.

    An extra rush-hour train has eased overcrowding of the former 5.39 p.m. to Salisbury; this now leaves at 5.43 and an additional electric service to Alton departs at 5.39 p.m.

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of overcrowd