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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

... CHANCELLOR was less pliant, and plainly suggested that the newspapers were actuated in this matter by regard for their circulations. Does he really suppose that the disputes of landlords and tenants will supply such popular "copy" as to crowd out the ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, July 7th, 1920 • Various

... there is scarcely anything in the volume for which with some trouble and research one might not find an original in Petrarch, or in the poets of Italy who followed him. But imitation, universal though it is in his work, does not altogether crowd out originality of feeling and poetic temper. At times, he sounds a personal note, his joy on leaving Spain for England, his feelings in the Tower, his life at the Court amongst his books, and as a country gentleman enjoying hunting and ...

— English Literature: Modern - Home University Library Of Modern Knowledge • G. H. Mair

... many affairs which happen to be of less moment. It is most important for everyone who is capable of higher and nobler thoughts to keep their mind from being so completely engrossed with private affairs and vulgar troubles as to let them take up all his attention and crowd out worthier matter; for that is, in a very real sense, to lose sight of the true end of life—propter ...

— Counsels and Maxims - From The Essays Of Arthur Schopenhauer • Arthur Schopenhauer

... to go, padre? There's a wood-cuttin' crowd out there, and I want to see 'em about firewood. There's a car possible to-day, and we could all ...

— Simon Called Peter • Robert Keable

... magnificence in living, while the poor, if physically more comfortable than formerly, are not meantime notably wiser or merrier. Ideal distinction has been sacrificed in the best men, to add material comforts to the worst. Things, as Emerson said, are in the saddle and ride mankind. The means crowd out the ends and civilisation reverts, when it least thinks it, ...

— The Life of Reason • George Santayana