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Definition of "overcrowded" []

  • Simple past tense and past participle of overcrowd. (verb)
  • Containing too many occupants for an area of its size. (adjective)

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Use "overcrowded" in a sentence
  • "For example, if zero tolerance for killing means that we must warehouse animals in overcrowded, disease and pest-ridden cages, and there are not enough staff of volunteers to provide these animals with adequate exercise, aren't we actually torturing these animals for the sake of our own vanity?"
  • "I can see a possible use for these signs in overcrowded public hunting areas out east to alert people that they are not alone in an area maybe but not in Colorado."
  • "A refugee advocacy group says displaced Haitians continue to live in overcrowded, unsanitary camps that are plagued by violence -- nine months after a deadly earthquake ravaged the nation."