crowding

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of crowd

noun

1. The act by which somebody is crowded.

   “To Johnson Life was as a Prison, to be endured with heroic faith: to Hume it was little more than a foolish Bartholomew-Fair Show-booth, with the foolish crowdings and elbowings of which it was not worth while to quarrel[…]”