Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun crowding

1 sense of crowding

Sense 1
crowding -- (a situation in which people or things are crowded together; "he didn't like the crowding on the beach")
       => situation, state of affairs -- (the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time; "the present international situation is dangerous"; "wondered how such a state of affairs had come about"; "eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation"- Franklin D.Roosevelt)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb crowd

4 senses of crowd

Sense 1
herd, crowd -- (cause to herd, drive, or crowd together; "We herded the children into a spare classroom")
       => move, displace -- (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant")

Sense 2
crowd -- (fill or occupy to the point of overflowing; "The students crowded the auditorium")
       => occupy, fill -- (occupy the whole of; "The liquid fills the container")

Sense 3
crowd, crowd together -- (to gather together in large numbers; "men in straw boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah")
       => meet, gather, assemble, forgather, foregather -- (collect in one place; "We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room")

Sense 4
push, crowd -- (approach a certain age or speed; "She is pushing fifty")
       => approach, near, come on, go up, draw near, draw close, come near -- (move towards; "We were approaching our destination"; "They are drawing near"; "The enemy army came nearer and nearer")