How to pronounce“overcrowding”in English
With the influx of African Americans, Baltimore soon became residentially segregated, and the construction of the B&O railroad displaced several African Americans into already filled slums.
Overcrowding and the lack of sanitation in these slums caused an outbreak of typhoid and tuberculosis of epic proportions.
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Definitions of “overcrowding”
present participle and gerund of overcrowd
The situation where a space holds more occupants than it can comfortably accommodate.
“[…] there are sublettings, overcrowdings of lands, clearances, and emigrations going on; and want of employment, with consequent destitution and wretchedness is the complaint of the majority of the inhabitants.”