overcrowded
adjective
over·crowd·ed
ˌō-vər-ˈkrau̇-dəd 
: crowded or filled to excess : having too many people or things
overcrowded streets/cities/classrooms
living in overcrowded conditions
… having an overcrowded space can make it hard for buyers to … visualize their own belongings in the space, said Los Angeles-based designer Francesca Grace.—
Jennifer Tzeses
Jennifer Tzeses… some 5 million workers commute for up to three hours on trains so overcrowded that there seem to be as many passengers hanging on to the outside of the carriages as there are inside.—Ismail Merchant
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Memories of preventable overdoses, suicides, stabbings, medical neglect and overcrowded cells still haunt him.
—Zane Irwin, NPR, 9 May 2025
As the Trump administration ramps up its mass-deportation efforts, immigration authorities have erected a plexiglass tent at the Krome detention center in South Florida, a facility that has recently been so overcrowded that detainees have been sleeping on the floor.
—Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 26 Apr. 2025
Critics of the Salvadoran prison system say inmates are often held without charge, denied medical care, and subjected to overcrowded, inhumane conditions.
—Nik Popli, Time, 15 Apr. 2025
Every place the military was stationed was overcrowded.
—Joan Didion, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025
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Zane Irwin, NPR, 9 May 2025
As the Trump administration ramps up its mass-deportation efforts, immigration authorities have erected a plexiglass tent at the Krome detention center in South Florida, a facility that has recently been so overcrowded that detainees have been sleeping on the floor.
—Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 26 Apr. 2025
Critics of the Salvadoran prison system say inmates are often held without charge, denied medical care, and subjected to overcrowded, inhumane conditions.
—Nik Popli, Time, 15 Apr. 2025
Every place the military was stationed was overcrowded.
—Joan Didion, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025
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“Overcrowded.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/overcrowded. Accessed 20 May. 2025.
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