overcrowd

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To fill beyond reasonable limits, with people, animals, objects or information.
    — The host of business travellers between Bishops Stortford and London would scarcely take kindly to devious routing via the Southbury line; on the other hand, it is not desirable that they should overcrowd the business trains to and from Cambridge.

词形变化

overcrowds present,singular,third-person overcrowding participle,present overcrowded participle,past overcrowded past

词源

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 crowd
English overcrowd
From over- + crowd.
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