Definition of "crowded" []

• Filled near or to capacity: a crowded bus. (adjective)
• Filled with a crowd: a crowded plaza. (adjective)
• Filled to such an extent as to be detrimental to the inhabitants: "By the mid-1800s children were being transported on 'orphan trains' from crowded eastern slums and institutions to the West” ( Mary-Lou Weisman). (adjective)

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• ""I was there before nine, and even then Hickson's shop was crowded -- _crowded_, my dear!""
• "Senate seat, partly because he couldn't put together a strong enough grass-roots campaign team that could defeat what he called a crowded "Republican scrum" of primary candidates."
• "Brown envisions a vast improvement to the shelter, which she described as crowded and substandard."