Third person singular present tense of becrowd; surrounds or fills with a crowd.
Same root as 'becrowding'—the prefix 'be-' plus 'crowd' (from Old English 'crudan'). This is the modern conjugated form used with third-person subjects like 'he' or 'she'.
In Shakespearean and Middle English texts, you'd see 'becrowd' used the way we might say 'swarm' today—it's a more emphatic, almost magical way of describing how crowds engulf a space, and it sounds more dramatic than our modern, flatter language.
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