Synonyms of the word

overcrowd

• v. To fill beyond reasonable limits, with people, animals, objects or information.

crowd

• v. (intransitive) To press forward; to advance by pushing.
• v. (intransitive) To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng.
• v. (transitive) To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
• v. (transitive) To fill by pressing or thronging together.
• v. (transitive, often used with "out of" or "off") To push, to press, to shove.
• v. (nautical) To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
• v. (nautical, of a square-rigged ship, transitive) To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
• v. (transitive) To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
• n. A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
• n. Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
• n. (with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
• n. A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
• n. (obsolete) Alternative form of crwth.
• n. (now dialectal) A fiddle.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To play on a crowd; to fiddle.

herd

• n. A number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper.
• n. Any collection of animals gathered or travelling in a company.
• n. A crowd, a mass of people; now usually pejorative: a rabble.
• v. (intransitive) To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company.
• v. (transitive) To unite or associate in a herd.
• v. (intransitive) To associate; to ally oneself with, or place oneself among, a group or company.
• n. (now rare) Someone who keeps a group of domestic animals; a herdsman.
• v. (intransitive, Scotland) To act as a herdsman or a shepherd.
• v. (transitive) To form or put into a herd.