English Dictionary

crowd

/kɹaʊd/

verb

(intransitive) To press forward; to advance by pushing. / (intransitive) To press together or collect in numbers / (transitive) To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.

The fans crowded around the stage to get a better view of the band.

意味（1）

(intransitive) To press forward; to advance by pushing.

The man crowded into the packed room.

意味（2）

(intransitive) To press together or collect in numbers

They crowded through the archway and into the park.

意味（3）

(transitive) To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.

He tried to crowd too many cows into the cow-pen.

意味（4）

(transitive) To fill by pressing or thronging together

The balconies and verandas were crowded with spectators, anxious to behold their future sovereign.

意味（5）

(transitive, often used with "out of" or "off") To push, to press, to shove.

They tried to crowd her off the sidewalk.

意味（6）

(nautical) To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.

意味（7）

(nautical, of a square-rigged ship, transitive) To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.

With all her might she crowds all sail off shore; in so doing, fights ’gainst the very winds that fain would blow her homeward; seeks all the lashed sea’s landlessness again; for refuge’s sake forlornly rushing into peril; her only friend her bitterest foe!

意味（8）

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