crowd out

1. 1.

   press, force, or thrust out of a small space

   “The weeds crowded out the flowers”

   Synonymsforce out

   Broaderdisplace

Questions about crowd out

What does crowd out mean?

crowd out means "press, force, or thrust out of a small space".

What is another word for crowd out?

Close synonyms include force out. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is crowd out a common word?

crowd out is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.