What's the difference between overcrow and overcrowd?
Overcrow
Definition:
(v. t.) To crow, exult, or boast, over; to overpower.
Example Sentences:
(1) A correlation was found between burn and scald accidents and New Commonwealth immigrants and overcrowing.
(2) A cytopathogenic effect is noticed in the cultured cells overcrowed with germs.
Overcrowd
Definition:
(v. t.) To crowd too much.
Example Sentences:
(1) A property may be considered overcrowded if two children above 10 of the opposite sex have to share the same bedroom.
(2) Rail campaigners claim that the convoluted carriage-ordering system contributes to overcrowding.
(3) Most travel in overcrowded inflatable dinghies that have just one air pocket, making deflation more likely.
(4) Though large numbers of young people can be an economic advantage, a combination of unfulfilled aspirations, scarce land and water, overcrowding in growing cities as well as inadequate infrastructure could lead to social tensions and political instability.
(5) If you are a London commuter dreading tube strike chaos this evening and tomorrow there is an alternative to fighting your way on to overcrowded buses or a long walk.
(6) How do you draw a supportive social services ring around these families if they are forced as a result of housing benefit caps to move miles away to different boroughs and schools, or downsize into an overcrowded flat?
(7) It positioned Labour much more to the left, David Cameron's Tories a little more to the right, and the Liberal Democrats as the sole enthusiasts for a previously overcrowded centre.
(8) At the same time it is important to note variables which have not changed: the relative risks by age and sex, repetition rates, the diagnostic picture, poisoning with non-prescribed drugs, and the rank order of municipal ward rates: and variables which have diminished: the rates for divorced men, overcrowding, domestic gas and barbiturate poisoning, and drug misuse.
(9) We will also require them to meet their basic responsibilities as landlords, cracking down on those who rent out dangerous, dirty and overcrowded properties.
(10) Every year about 600 climbers come to Nepal hoping to reach the summit, creating a multimillion-pound industry and bringing problems of overcrowding.
(11) It feels like most people who are climbing Everest are having a film crew follow them.” Sherpa review – peril in the shadow of Everest Read more Since April’s earthquake, the Nepalese government have limited access to permits to experienced climbers, hoping that will address concerns about safety and overcrowding.
(12) Other factors which possibly contribute to the current pattern of hepatitis in California are the overcrowding and inadequate sanitary facilities among a portion of young people between the ages of 15 and 30.
(13) The Office of Rail Regulation will launch an investigation into serious travel disruption caused by overrunning engineering works in London , which led to services to and from two major stations being cancelled and chaotic overcrowding at a local station to which some trains were re-routed.
(14) The realities of living in overcrowded Indian cities or zones like Dwarka have made reinforcing social separation and discrimination through rituals or violence much harder.
(15) The prevalence of respiratory disease was higher among persons who did their cooking and sleeping in the same room, those living in poorly ventilated and overcrowded dwellings, and those with the fewest years of schooling.
(16) The majority of our prisons are overcrowded and, according the Prison Officers Association (POA) and prison reform groups, understaffed.
(17) There was some evidence that larger homes had been re-let, and there had been a “small increase” in the numbers of overcrowded tenants rehoused.
(18) "By freeing up slots, we will make Heathrow less overcrowded."
(19) A second experiment demonstrated the reproducibility of this phenomenon and showed that cell-to-cell spread can occur at a low rate in overcrowded, not overlaid, cell layers; it also showed that, in multiplying cell layers, the infection tends to become persistent.
(20) The overcrowding and geographical mobility variables used in the Jarman index did not predict increased workload.