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overcrowded
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overcrowded
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | congested |
| Synonyms: | full, jam-packed, overbuilt, overflowing, overpopulated, stuffed |
| Main Entry: | bursting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | as full as possible |
| Synonyms: | brimming, crammed, filled, full, jam-packed, jammed, overcrowded, packed, stuffed, teeming |
| Main Entry: | jammed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thronged |
| Synonyms: | busy, congested, crammed, crowded, deluged, filled, flooded, full, humming, jampacked, lively, mobbed, multitudinous, overcrowded, overflowing, packed, populous, swarming, teeming |
| Antonyms: | empty, vacant |
| Main Entry: | jampacked |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stuffed |
| Synonyms: | busy, crammed, crowded, filled, full, jammed, mobbed, overcrowded, overflowing, packed |
| Antonyms: | empty, vacant |
| Main Entry: | chock-full |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | filled to capacity |
| Synonyms: | brimming, bulging. bursting, bursting, chock-a-block, completely full, cram full, crammed, jam-packed, overcrowded, overflowing, packed, packed like sardines, packed to capacity, stuffed |
| Main Entry: | cram |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fill to overflowing; compress |
| Synonyms: | charge, chock, choke, compact, crowd, crush, devour, drive, force, gobble, gorge, guzzle, heap, ingurgitate, jam, jam-pack, load, overcrowd, overeat, overfill, pack, pack 'em in, pack in, pack it in, pack like sardines, press, ram, sardine, satiate, shove, slop, slosh, squash, squeeze, stive, stuff, tamp, thrust, wedge, wolf* |
| Antonyms: | let out, open, release |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | crowd |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cram, press into area |
| Synonyms: | bear, bunch, bundle, chock, cluster, congest, congregate, crush, deluge, elbow, flock, gather, huddle, jam, jam-pack, justle, mass, muster, overcrowd, pack, pack 'em in, pack like sardines, pile, push, ram, sardine, shove, squash, squeeze, squish, stream, surge, swamp, swarm, throng, top off, troop |
| Antonyms: | abandon, leave, retreat |
| Main Entry: | deluge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | overwhelm |
| Synonyms: | abound, crowd, engulf, flood, glut, inundate, overcome, overcrowd, overload, overrun, oversupply, snow under, snow*, swamp, teem |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | swamp |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | overwhelm, flood |
| Synonyms: | beset, besiege, crowd, drench, drown, engulf, inundate, overcrowd, overflow, overload, satiate, saturate, sink, snow*, submerge, submerse, surfeit, swallow up, upset, wash, waterlog, whelm |
| Antonyms: | pass up, underwhelm |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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