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单词 crowd out
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crowd out
8. crowd out: to push or force out by pressure of a crowd (obsolete); to exclude by crowding, or because the crowd is more than the space can hold. Also with off, up.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > be on the outside of [verb (transitive)] > keep or shut out > by crowding
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1652 D. Osborne Lett. (1888) 30 'Tis very possible the next new experiment may crowd me out again.
1684 T. Burnet Theory of Earth i. viii. 103 According as it [sc. the sea] can make its way into all those Subterraneous Cavities, and crowd the Air out of them.
1841–44 R. W. Emerson Over-soul in Wks. (1906) I. 111 [The] cuckoo Crowds every egg out of the nest.
1881 Amer. Naturalist 15 31 The yellow catkins were actually crowding off the leaves.
1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. lxxiv. 615 They crowd out better men.
1889 Morning Post 24 June 2/1 Works sent to the Royal Academy and crowded out.
1901 S. Merwin & H. K. Webster Calumet ‘K’ vi. 108 It takes a pretty lively man to crowd me off the end of a wire.
1910 Springfield Weekly Republ. 6 Jan. 1 The price of cotton is being crowded up higher than conditions of supply and demand warrant.
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