Language: en
Meaning: (transitive,idiomatic)Tojoinwhen notwanted; toforceone's way into asituationwhere one isunwelcome.1863, “Astronomy and Meteorology[Some Peculiar Features of the Sun’s Surface]”, inDavid A[mes] Wells, editor,Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art for 1863.[…], Boston, Mass.: Gould and Lincoln,[…],→OCLC,page316:These objects [on the sun's surface], some of which were as large in superficial area as all Europe, and some even as the surface of the whole earth, were found to shoot in thin streams across the spots, bringing them over in well-defined streams or comparative lines,[…]; sometimes bycrowding in onthe edges of the spot they closed it in, and frequently at length thus obliterated it.1922November 25,A[rthur] M[urray] Chisholm, “A Thousand a Plate”, inWestern Story Magazine, volume XXX, number 4, New York, N.Y.:Street & Smith Corporation,→OCLC, chapter II,page90, column 2:Seemingly here was an intruder who was violating custom. Moreover, the partners had come to look upon this exceedingly rich district as their exclusive property. And so their indignation was extreme. "The low-down, ornery cuss!" said Dobbs. "The nerve of him,crowdin' in onus, just as if there wasn't lots of other places for him to go!"1962,John Steinbeck,Travels with Charley in Search of America, New York, N.Y.:Viking Press,→OCLC; republished London:William Heinemann Ltd.,1989,→ISBN, part 1,page55:Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believig nothing we cannot measure or weigh. I knew beyond all doubt that the dark thingscrowding in onme either did not exist or were not dangerous to me, and still I was afraid.1971,Ibn ‘Arabi, “Introduction[Ibn ‘Arabi, His Life and Work]”, in R. W. J. Austin, transl.,Sufis of Andalusia: The Rūḥ al-quds and al-Durrat al-fākhirah of Ibn ‘Arabī:[…], Berkeley; Los Angeles, Calif.:University of California Press,→ISBN,page21:Do the companions of Muḥammad, the blessing and peace of God be upon him, think that they can have him all to themselves; by God, we willcrowd in onthem until they realize that they have left to come after them men (worthy of him).1974,James A[lbert] Michener, “A Smell of Sheep”, inCentennial: A Novel, New York, N.Y.:Random House,→ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.:Dial Press,2015,→ISBN,page685:Back east, wherever you look, you see something. The worldcrowds in onyou. I can't tell you how homesick I got for the prairies, where a man can look for miles and not see anything … not feel crowded.2003,Helen Rappaport, “Balmoral Castle”, inQueen Victoria: A Biographical Companion(ABC-CLIO Biographical Companions), Santa Barbara, Calif.:ABC-CLIO,→ISBN,page56, column 2:But in 1883 the queen [Queen Victoria] abandoned this place [Glas-allt-Shiel] on the death ofJohn Brown; wherever she now went the memoriescrowded in onher.
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