Overcrowding - English meaning

verb

(of a person or animal) have severe difficulty in breathing because of a constricted or obstructed throat or a lack of air.

Usage examples:

Willie choked on a mouthful of tea

noun

A valve in the carburettor of a petrol engine that is used to reduce the amount of air in the fuel mixture when the engine is started.

Usage examples:

An automatic choke

noun

A sound produced by a person or animal having difficulty in breathing.

Usage examples:

A little choke of laughter

adjective

(of a road or place) so crowded with traffic or people as to hinder or prevent freedom of movement.

Usage examples:

The congested streets of the west end

verb

Crowd (a road or place) so as to hinder or prevent freedom of movement.

Usage examples:

Uncontrolled development will congest our streets

adjective

(of a space) full of people, leaving little or no room for movement; packed.

Usage examples:

A very crowded room

verb

(of a number of people) fill (a space) almost completely, leaving little or no room for movement.

Usage examples:

The dance floor was crowded with revellers

adjective

Full of people

Usage examples:

It’s a popular and often crowded place.

verb

Squeeze or pack tightly into a specified space.

Usage examples:

Four of us were jammed in one compartment

verb

Make (fruit) into jam.

noun

An instance of a thing seizing or becoming stuck.

Usage examples:

Paper jams

adjective

Flooding or flowing over a surface or area.

Usage examples:

An overflowing river swamped dozens of villages

verb

(especially of a liquid) flow over the brim of a receptacle.

Usage examples:

Chemicals overflowed from a storage tank

verb

Present participle of overflow

Usage examples:

The milk overflowed when i poured it into the jug., because of heavy rain, the river may overflow i…

adjective

Containing an excessive amount of something.

Usage examples:

An overfull cup of tea

adjective

Loaded with too great a burden or cargo.

Usage examples:

Overloaded vehicles

verb

Load with too great a burden or cargo.

Usage examples:

Both boats were overloaded and low in the water

adjective

(of a place) containing an excessive number of people.

Usage examples:

An increasingly overpeopled world

adjective

Having an excessively large population.

Usage examples:

Overpopulated industrial countries

verb

Populate (an area) in excessively large numbers.

Usage examples:

It was our duty to desist from overpopulating the planet

verb

Spread over or occupy (a place) in large numbers.

Usage examples:

The mediterranean has been overrun by tourists

noun

An instance of something exceeding an expected or allowed time or cost.

Usage examples:

The cost overrun caused the company's share price to fall

verb

To spread over an area quickly and in large numbers

Usage examples:

The city has become increasingly unpleasant because it is overrun with tourists.

idiom

If people are packed or squashed like sardines, they are positioned very close together so that they cannot move

Usage examples:

We were squashed like sardines in the rush-hour train.

adjective

Moving in or forming a large or dense group.

Usage examples:

Swarming locusts

verb

(of flying insects) move in or form a swarm.

Usage examples:

A plague of locusts swarmed across the countryside

verb

Present participle of swarm

Usage examples:

During the summer, tourists swarm the little beachside town.

noun

The chemical element of atomic number 52, a brittle, shiny, silvery-white metalloid resembling selenium and occurring mainly in small amounts in metallic sulphide ores.

noun

(in tonic sol-fa) the seventh note of a major scale.

The chemical element tellurium.

verb

(of a crowd) fill or be present in (a place or area).

Usage examples:

A crowd thronged the station

noun

A large, densely packed crowd of people or animals.

Usage examples:

He pushed his way through the throng

verb

Past simple and past participle of throng

Usage examples:

Crowds thronged the market place., the narrow streets were thronged with summer visitors., [ + to i…