verb
- to crowd out; to displace or exclude by crowding or overwhelming numbers
Usage: past tense and past participle of outcrowd; somewhat archaic or literary
adjective
- pushed out or displaced by excessive crowding
Usage: rare; literary
Examples
- The smaller shops were outcrowded by the new shopping mall.
- Local vendors felt outcrowded by the influx of chain stores.
- The original residents were gradually outcrowded by new developments.
- Small businesses were outcrowded from the downtown area.
- The native species was outcrowded by invasive plants.