OVER-CROWDING

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Excessive crowding

Example:

traffic congestion

Synonyms:

congestion; over-crowding

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("over-crowding" is a kind of...):

crowding (a situation in which people or things are crowded together)

Derivation:

overcrowd (crowd together too much)

overcrowd (cause to crowd together too much)

-ing form of the verb over-crowd