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Noun crowding has 1 sense
- crowding - a situation in which people or things are crowded together; "he didn't like the crowding on the beach"
--1 is a kind of situation, state of affairs
--1 has particulars: congestion, over-crowding
Verb crowd has 4 senses
- herd, crowd - cause to herd, drive, or crowd together; "We herded the children into a spare classroom"
--1 is one way to move, displace
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
- crowd - fill or occupy to the point of overflowing; "The students crowded the auditorium"
--2 is one way to occupy, fill
Sample sentence:
The crowds crowd in the streets
- crowd, crowd together - to gather together in large numbers; "men in straw boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah"
--3 is one way to meet, gather, assemble, forgather, foregather
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
- push, crowd - approach a certain age or speed; "She is pushing fifty"
--4 is one way to approach, near, come on, go up, draw near, draw close, come near
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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