Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to crowd
Participle: crowded
Gerund: crowding
Indicative
Present
| I | crowd |
| you | crowd |
| he;she;it | crowds |
| we | crowd |
| you | crowd |
| they | crowd |
Perfect
| I | have crowded |
| you | have crowded |
| he;she;it | has crowded |
| we | have crowded |
| you | have crowded |
| they | have crowded |
Past
| I | crowded |
| you | crowded |
| he;she;it | crowded |
| we | crowded |
| you | crowded |
| they | crowded |
Pluperfect
| I | had crowded |
| you | had crowded |
| he;she;it | had crowded |
| we | had crowded |
| you | had crowded |
| they | had crowded |
Future
| I | will crowd |
| you | will crowd |
| he;she;it | will crowd |
| we | will crowd |
| you | will crowd |
| they | will crowd |
Future Perfect
| I | will have crowded |
| you | will have crowded |
| he;she;it | will have crowded |
| we | will have crowded |
| you | will have crowded |
| they | will have crowded |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | crowd |
| you | crowd |
| he;she;it | crowd |
| we | crowd |
| you | crowd |
| they | crowd |
Perfect
| I | have crowded |
| you | have crowded |
| he;she;it | have crowded |
| we | have crowded |
| you | have crowded |
| they | have crowded |
Imperfect
| I | crowded |
| you | crowded |
| he;she;it | crowded |
| we | crowded |
| you | crowded |
| they | crowded |
Pluperfect
| I | had crowded |
| you | had crowded |
| he;she;it | had crowded |
| we | had crowded |
| you | had crowded |
| they | had crowded |
Conditional
Present
| I | would crowd |
| you | would crowd |
| he;she;it | would crowd |
| we | would crowd |
| you | would crowd |
| they | would crowd |
Perfect
| I | would have crowded |
| you | would have crowded |
| he;she;it | would have crowded |
| we | would have crowded |
| you | would have crowded |
| they | would have crowded |
Imperative
| you | crowd |
| we | Let's crowd |
| you | crowd |
Verbs conjugated like 'crowd'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'crowd'
clowd,
croud,
crow,
crown,
broid,
brood,
brow,
brown,
chord,
chow,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- To collect in numbers.
- assemble
- assemble
- troop, herd, swarm, throng
- squeeze
- jam, ram, cram, stuff, charge, cramp, force, pack
Additional Information
Etymology
1. O.E.
crudan "to press, crush." The noun is first attested 1567; the earlier word was
press.
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Indo-European *grewt-der.
4. Proto-Germanic *krūdaną
5. Proto-West Germanic *krūdan
6. Old English crūdan
7. Middle English crouden
8. English crowd
9. From Middle English crouden, from Old English crūdan, from Proto-West Germanic *krūdan, from Proto-Germanic *krūdaną, *kreudaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *grewt- (“to push; press”). Cognate with German Low German kroden (“to push, shove”), Dutch kruien (“to push, shove”).
10. (group of people, mob): Compare typologically throng (<<~ Proto-Germanic *þrinhwaną); Czech dav (akin to Russian дави́ть (davítʹ), да́вка (dávka)); Polish ciżba, ścisk (<~ ciskać, akin to ти́скать (tískatʹ)); Polish tłok, Russian толчея́ (tolčejá) (akin to толка́ть (tolkátʹ)). See: Middle English '
crouden', Proto-Germanic '
*krūdaną', Dutch '
kruien'.
Verbs referencing "crowd"
Dutch
kruien.
Sample Sentences
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[...] we had made the Light at its outer entrance, and put the pilot in charge—when suddenly the ship struck upon a bank of mud. An immediate rush on deck took place of course; the sides were crowded in an instant; and for a few minutes we were in as lively a state of confusion as the greatest lover of disorder would desire to see. The passengers, and guns, and water-casks, and other heavy [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] in England; the land stretched out on either side, streaked with light patches of snow; white wooden houses; people at their doors; telegraphs working; flags hoisted; wharfs appearing; ships; quays crowded with people; distant noises; shouts; men and boys running down steep places towards the pier: all more bright and gay and fresh to our unused eyes than words can paint them. We came to a wharf, [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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The kitchen was full of all his compeers, who had hurried and crowded in, from the various cabins, to hear the termination of the day's exploits. Now was Sam's hour of glory. The story of the day was rehearsed, with all kinds of ornament and varnishing which might be [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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The great drawing-room, which I have already mentioned, and the other chambers on the ground-floor, were crowded to excess. The company was not, in our sense of the term, select, for it comprehended persons of very many grades and classes; nor was there any great display of costly attire: indeed, some of the [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] a boat as ever walked the waters of her namesake river, was floating gayly down the stream, under a brilliant sky, the stripes and stars of free America waving and fluttering over head; the guards crowded with well-dressed ladies and gentlemen walking and enjoying the delightful day. All was full of life, buoyant and rejoicing; — all but Haley's gang, who were stored, with other freight, on the lower [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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Between five and six o’clock in the morning we got up, and some of us went on deck, to give them an opportunity of taking the shelves down; while others, the morning being very cold, crowded round the rusty stove, cherishing the newly kindled fire, and filling the grate with those voluntary contributions of which they had been so liberal all night. The washing accommodations were [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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The vessel in which we returned from Quebec to Montreal was crowded with them, and at night they spread their beds between decks (those who had beds, at least ), and slept so close and thick about our cabin door, that the passage to and fro was quite blocked up. [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] and six o’clock that afternoon; after a very hot day 's journey, for we were now in the height of summer again. At seven we started for New York on board a great North River steamboat, which was so crowded with passengers that the upper deck was like the box lobby of a theatre between the pieces, and the lower one like Tottenham Court Road on a Saturday night. But we slept soundly, notwithstanding, [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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The pilot had not been slow to take advantage of this favourable weather, and the ship which yesterday had been in such a crowded dock that she might have retired from trade for good and all, for any chance she seemed to have of going to sea, was now full sixteen miles away. A gallant sight she was, when we, fast gaining on [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] breeze freshened again next day, and on we went once more before it gallantly: descrying now and then an English ship going homeward under shortened sail, while we, with every inch of canvas crowded on, dashed gaily past, and left her far behind. Towards evening, the weather turned hazy, with a drizzling rain; and soon became so thick, that we sailed, as it were, in a cloud. Still we swept [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)