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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
overcrowd .
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Examples
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Those scientific minds brave enough to point out these obvious flaws get fired, while the insane, lazy, and stupid continue to uphold a broken system that clearly doesn't work, punishes innocent citizens, overcrowds prisons, and generally increases suffering.
Allison Kilkenny: Government Adviser Fired For Saying Alcohol Is More Dangerous Than Drugs 2009
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First, the population growth in the area exceeds the national average and not only overcrowds land and depletes natural resources, but also leads to migration and agrarian disputes.
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Excessive biliary secretion and excretion can also result from overeating, which overcrowds the area.
How and When to Be Your Own Doctor Isabel Moser
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It overcrowds the abdominal and thoracic cavities, thus making the breath short and the working of the heart more difficult, also producing a tendency to prolapsus of the various abdominal organs.
Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency R. L. Alsaker
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He is obscure, he is full of echoes, he staggers beneath a burden of useless learning, he overcrowds his canvas and strives in vain to put the breath of life into bones long dry; in addition, his epic suffers from the lack of the reviser's hand.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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The eye's memory is a judicious painter that never overcrowds the canvas.
Two Summers in Guyenne Edward Harrison Barker 1885
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It is not claimed, I believe, that the time has come for the further restriction of immigration on the ground that an excess of population overcrowds our land.
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 2: Grover Cleveland Grover Cleveland 1872
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As a Tory backbencher in 1988, Nicholson was vice-chairman of a parliamentary committee that rejected the expansion of automatic incarceration, asserting that it doesn't work, overcrowds jails and takes too hefty of a social and financial toll.
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However, as the quarantine facility overcrowds with more bodies, waste and detritus,
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However, as the quarantine facility overcrowds with more bodies, waste and detritus,
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