over-crowding

1. 1.

   excessive crowding

   “traffic congestion”

   Synonymscongestion

   Broadercrowding

Questions about over-crowding

What does over-crowding mean?

over-crowding means "excessive crowding".

How many syllables are in over-crowding?

over-crowding has 4 syllables and divides as o-ver--crow-ding under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for over-crowding?

Close synonyms include congestion. 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.