From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Crowd \Crowd\ (kroud), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Crowded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Crowding}.] [OE. crouden, cruden, AS. cr[=u]dan; cf. D. kruijen to push in a wheelbarrow.]
1. To push, to press, to shove. --Chaucer.
2. To press or drive together; to mass together. ''Crowd us and crush us.'' --Shak.
3. 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. --Prescott.
4. 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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
1. overfilled or compacted or concentrated; filled to excess; as, a crowded program. Opposite of {uncrowded}.
Note: [Narrower terms: {full, jammed, jam-packed, packed}] [WordNet 1.5]
2. filled with a crowd; as, a crowded marketplace. [PJC]
3. having an uncomfortable density of people; filled to excess with people; as, crowded trains; a crowded theater. [PJC]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: overfilled or compacted or concentrated; "a crowded theater"; "a crowded program"; "crowded trains"; "a young mother's crowded days" [ant: {uncrowded}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
135 Moby Thesaurus words for "crowded": alive with, angustifoliate, angustirostrate, angustisellate, angustiseptal, at the double, awash, bloated, brimful, brimming, bristling, bursting, chock-full, choked, circumscribed, close, close-fitting, close-knit, close-textured, close-woven, compact, compacted, compressed, concentrated, concrete, condensed, confined, congested, consolidated, constricted, crammed, crammed full, cramp, cramped, crawling, crowding, dense, distended, double-quick, double-time, drenched, filled to overflowing, firm, full, gluey, glutted, gorged, hard, hard-pressed, hard-pushed, hard-run, heavy, hurried, hyperemic, impenetrable, impermeable, in profusion, in spate, incapacious, incommodious, isthmian, isthmic, jam-packed, jammed, lavish, limited, loaded, massive, meager, narrow, near, nonporous, on the double, overblown, overburdened, overcharged, overfed, overflowing, overfraught, overfreighted, overfull, overladen, overloaded, overstocked, overstuffed, oversupplied, overweighted, packed, plethoric, populous, pressed, pressed for time, prodigal, profuse, proliferating, prolific, pushed, ready to burst, restricted, rife, running over, rushed, satiated, saturated, scant, scanty, serried, slender, soaked, solid, strait, studded, stuffed, stuffed up, substantial, superabundant, supercharged, supersaturated, surcharged, surfeited, swarming, swollen, teeming, thick, thick as hail, thick with, thick-coming, thick-growing, thickset, thronged, thronging, tight, viscid, viscose, viscous
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