crowd

Definition

  • verb: to fill (something) so that there is little or no room for anyone or anything else
  • verb: to press on
  • usually used with 'the'
  • synonyms: hurry, urge, dun

Examples

  • He said he broke up with his last girlfriend because she was beginning to 'crowd' him. [=she was not allowing him enough privacy and independence]

  • Her parents are concerned that she's been hanging out with 'a bad crowd'. [=with people who do illegal or immoral things]

  • He was never one to 'follow the crowd', so we weren't surprised when he dropped out of college to start his own business.

Movie quotes

  • (..) in order to avoid true judgment from the gods. will stand trial before seven septons as it was in the earliest days of the Faith. Crowd: Your Grace... that old rumor you told me about. My little birds investigated. And? Was it just a rumor (..)
    2016 TvShow: Game of Thrones Title: No One Season: 6 Episode 8
  • (..) and Cersei Lannister's trial will be held in the Great Sept of Baelor on the first day of the Festival of the Mother. (crowd murmuring) Furthermore, after much prayer the Crown has decided that from this day forward, trial by combat will be forbidden throughout the Seven Kingdoms. (..)
    2016 TvShow: Game of Thrones Title: No One Season: 6 Episode 8