overcrowding's Usage Examples:

shores of California causing overcrowding, excessive warmth and increasing crabbiness in general.

In November 2007, the Independent Monitoring Board warned in a report that overcrowding at Birmingham was putting prisoners and staff at risk.

With overcrowding of the city centre being initially alleviated by expansion to the north, creating the New Town, via the North Bridge, many people felt that the New Town, elegant as it was, did not offer privacy and intimacy, and so, when the South Bridge was built in 1788, parts of Newington became available for development.

considered a rare disease that occurs mainly in populations that suffer unhygienic extreme overcrowding.

Factors such as gang rivalries, overcrowding, minor disputes, and prison design contribute to violent attacks.

Frances Crook of the Howard League for Penal Reform, was pleased about the news but feared prisoners would probably be shipped out in the middle of the night causing even more overcrowding in other prisons.

This was in part due to the overcrowding, which was exacerbated by the Great Migration.

The only way to improve some areas was wholesale slum clearance, and this was the solution imposed in several regions of Swansea, notably Greenhill (current Dyfatty and Alexandra Road area), an area with massive overcrowding and consequent disproportionate incidence of cholera cases.

Panama, was overcrowding.

As part of the effort to enact this agreement, Operations Safe Haven and Safe Passage were executed to alleviate overcrowding at Guantanamo Bay by using temporary camps in Panama.

In 1977, the race was almost cancelled as the previous year saw an overwhelming number of participants due to the running boom of the 1970s - the local government was worried about overcrowding and also did not want to close down nearby streets.

On October 25, 1863, DeLand ordered that prisoners clean their quarters regularly, but overcrowding seems to have made it impossible to keep the barracks sanitary.

Synonyms:

crowd together, crowd,

Antonyms:

empty, undercharge,