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verb

Crowd v. t. (past & past part. crowded; pres. part. crowding)

To push, to press, to shove.

To press or drive together; to mass together. "Crowd us and crush us."

To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity. "The balconies and verandas were crowded with spectators, anxious to behold their future sovereign."

To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably. (Colloq.)

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.

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"Crowd out" Quotes from Famous Books

... platoons entrained, and then proceeded to the officers' carriages. It was rumoured that Colonel Best-Dunkley was going to travel by a particular carriage. You should have seen how that carriage was boycotted! Nobody would go into it. They preferred to crowd out the other carriages and leave the tainted carriage empty. It was most noticeable. I do not think there is a single person in the Battalion who would not rather travel with the devil incarnate than with ...

— At Ypres with Best-Dunkley • Thomas Hope Floyd

... sound Over the garden's battle-ground, And lovely ladies crowd out to see The long procession ...

— Many Voices • E. Nesbit

... had not come to the wilderness for adventure, or for the companionship of the men he might find there; he had come because he wanted to forget. Not even to seek renewing and fresh hopes, but only to crowd out of his life the memory of that upheaval and tragedy that, it seemed, had placed a stern hand upon mere joy for evermore. And he believed he would achieve this best with the vigorous, interesting occupation of helping a young country struggle through ...

— The Rhodesian • Gertrude Page

... however, instantly beaten back; and the fury of the mob was so great that it was with difficulty he could effect a retreat. The whole force of the constables, jailers and others was required to keep the crowd out of the Hall. The doors were closed and barricaded, and the mob threatened to burst them open if Jack was not ...

— Jack Sheppard - A Romance • William Harrison Ainsworth

... elevator over the path the men had already trampled. Within the circle of light between him and the C. & S. C. tracks stood scattered groups of the laborers, and others wandered about with their hooks over their shoulders. There was a larger, less distinct crowd out on the tracks. Bannon ran through an opening in the fence, and pushed into the largest group. Here Peterson and Vogel were talking to a stupid-looking man with a ...

— Calumet "K" • Samuel Merwin and Henry Kitchell Webster

... work open. Aim for economy of line. If a shadow can be rendered with twenty strokes do not crowd in forty, as you will endanger its transparency. Remember that in reproduction the lines tend to thicken and so to crowd out the light between them. This is so distressingly true of newspaper reproduction that in drawings for this purpose the lines have to be generally very thin, sharp, and well apart. The above rule should be particularly regarded in all cases where the drawing ...

— Pen Drawing - An Illustrated Treatise • Charles Maginnis

... often spoke of her experience afterward to the two boys, however, and in Keith's day-dreams a home for Jonesy began to crowd out all other ...

— Two Little Knights of Kentucky • Annie Fellows Johnston