crowd, v. [press], shove, jostle; compress, [cram], [cramp], [squeeze], stow, [impact]; [swarm], throng, [troop]; [intrude].

crowd, n. concourse, [crush], [posse], [multitude], [number], [mass], throng, [horde], [host], [troop], [bevy], [knot], [assembly], confluence; [populace], [rabble], [commonalty], [mob], proletariat, riffraff, the masses, rabblerout, roughscuff.

crowded, a. congested, serried, dense, [compact]. Antonyms: incompact, [loose].

crowding, n. congestion, compression.

crown, n. diadem, coronet, corona; tiara; [wreath], garland chaplet, coronal, laurel, bays; [royalty], [sovereignty]; [consummation], capsheaf, [summit], [top], [crest], [vertex], vortex; krone. Associated words: coronal, coronary.

crown, v. [consummate], [complete].

crowning, a. consummating, completing.

crowning, n. coronation.

crucial, a. cruciform, cross-shaped; [severe], [trying], ordeal

crude, a. [undeveloped], inelaborate, [uncouth], inartistic, [unfinished].