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overcrowd

[ oh-ver-kroud ]

verb (used with or without object)

  1. to crowd to an uncomfortable or undesirable excess.


overcrowd

/ 藢蓹蕣惫蓹藞办谤补蕣诲 /

verb

  1. tr to fill (a room, vehicle, city, etc) with more people or things than is desirable
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of overcrowd1

First recorded in 1760鈥70; over- + crowd 1
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The camp is overcrowded, accommodating more than 9,000 people - three times the number it was designed for.

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Due to overcrowding and unsafe conditions, he was released from detention in 2020.

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Renewed 35 times by March 2025, it has led to mass incarceration and overcrowded prisons, where reports of abuse and neglect are common.

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Families are unable to say goodbye to loved ones because of changes to death certificates which has also led to overcrowded mortuaries, a funeral director has said.

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One Virginia facility, for example, experienced a mumps outbreak in 2019, which the organization says was exacerbated by unsafe and overcrowded conditions.

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