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crowding 音標拼音: [kr'ɑʊdɪŋ] 擁擠; 皺紋形成 擁擠; 皺紋形成 crowding擁擠 crowding n 1: a situation in which people or things are crowded together; " he didn' t like the crowding on the beach" Crowd \ Crowd\ ( kroud), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Crowded}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Crowding}.] [ OE. crouden, cruden, AS. cr[= u] dan; cf. D. kruijen to push in a wheelbarrow.] 1. To push, to press, to shove. -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To press or drive together; to mass together. " Crowd us and crush us." -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity. [ 1913 Webster] The balconies and verandas were crowded with spectators, anxious to behold their future sovereign. -- Prescott. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably. [ Colloq.] [ 1913 Webster] { To crowd out}, to press out; specifically, to prevent the publication of; as, the press of other matter crowded out the article. { To crowd sail} ( Naut.), to carry an extraordinary amount of sail, with a view to accelerate the speed of a vessel; to carry a press of sail. [ 1913 Webster]
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