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"1": "en",
"2": "over",
"3": "crowd"
},
"expansion": "over- + crowd",
"name": "prefix"
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],
"etymology_text": "over- + crowd",
"forms": [
{
"form": "overcrowds",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "overcrowding",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "overcrowded",
"tags": [
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"past"
]
},
{
"form": "overcrowded",
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}
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"expansion": "overcrowd (third-person singular simple present overcrowds, present participle overcrowding, simple past and past participle overcrowded)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
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"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
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"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
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"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
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"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1961 January, “The North-East London electrification of the Great Eastern Line”, in Trains Illustrated, page 19",
"text": "The host of business travellers between Bishops Stortford and London would scarcely take kindly to devious routing via the Southbury line; on the other hand, it is not desirable that they should overcrowd the business trains to and from Cambridge.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To fill beyond reasonable limits, with people, animals, objects or information."
],
"id": "en-overcrowd-en-verb-VKIyZjav",
"links": [
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"people",
"person"
],
[
"animal",
"animal"
],
[
"object",
"object"
],
[
"information",
"information"
]
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pretǎpkvam",
"sense": "to fill beyond reasonable limits",
"word": "претъпквам"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to fill beyond reasonable limits",
"word": "túlzsúfol"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to fill beyond reasonable limits",
"word": "túlnépesít"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to fill beyond reasonable limits",
"word": "affollare"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to fill beyond reasonable limits",
"word": "opuru"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to fill beyond reasonable limits",
"word": "sobrelotar"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to fill beyond reasonable limits",
"word": "superlotar"
}
]
}
],
"word": "overcrowd"
}
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"2": "over",
"3": "crowd"
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"etymology_text": "over- + crowd",
"forms": [
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"form": "overcrowds",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
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},
{
"form": "overcrowding",
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]
},
{
"form": "overcrowded",
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},
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"pos": "verb",
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"English terms with quotations",
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],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1961 January, “The North-East London electrification of the Great Eastern Line”, in Trains Illustrated, page 19",
"text": "The host of business travellers between Bishops Stortford and London would scarcely take kindly to devious routing via the Southbury line; on the other hand, it is not desirable that they should overcrowd the business trains to and from Cambridge.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To fill beyond reasonable limits, with people, animals, objects or information."
],
"links": [
[
"people",
"person"
],
[
"animal",
"animal"
],
[
"object",
"object"
],
[
"information",
"information"
]
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pretǎpkvam",
"sense": "to fill beyond reasonable limits",
"word": "претъпквам"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to fill beyond reasonable limits",
"word": "túlzsúfol"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to fill beyond reasonable limits",
"word": "túlnépesít"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to fill beyond reasonable limits",
"word": "affollare"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to fill beyond reasonable limits",
"word": "opuru"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to fill beyond reasonable limits",
"word": "sobrelotar"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to fill beyond reasonable limits",
"word": "superlotar"
}
],
"word": "overcrowd"
}
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