Overcrowd vs Packed - What's the difference?
overcrowd | packed |
(pack)
Put into a package.
Filled with a large number or large quantity of something.
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, title= (colloquial) Filled to capacity with people.
As verbs the difference between overcrowd and packed
is that overcrowd is to fill beyond desired limits, with people, animals, objects or information while packed is (pack).As an adjective packed is
put into a package.overcrowd
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packed
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(en adjective)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=[…] St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed , crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.}}