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Definition of Overcrowds
1. overcrowd [v] - See also: overcrowd
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overcrowds
Literary usage of Overcrowds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Crowd in Peace and War by William Martin Conway (1915)
"CHAPTER XV overcrowds IF independent crowds of a similar kind come in contact
one with another, an instinctive mutual hostility arises, except when two or ..."
2. Housing conditions in manchester and Salford. A report prepared for the by T. R. Marr (1904)
"The result is that the family overcrowds during the day a room in which cooking,
washing, etc., are carried on, and in which the children play, ..."
3. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1916)
"... exponents, representatives, organization, relations to government, liberty
and freedom, education, morals, religion, overcrowds, etc. ..."
4. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"But the arrangement of material lacks proportion; and in her effort to be true
to life, she overcrowds her scenes with children and other people who are ..."
5. The Bookman (1907)
"He seems so afraid that some of the Junker's sins and shortcomings will be left
out that he overcrowds his picture, until you feel you are reading the life ..."
6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1893)
"1 He casts his net too wide; he overcrowds characters and sensational incidents ;
and a veteran in fiction like Anthony ..."
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