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OVERCULTIVATE
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they overcultivate ... he / she / it overcultivates
Past simple: overcultivated
Past participle: overcultivated
-ing form: overcultivating
Sense 1
Meaning:
To exhaust by excessive cultivation
Example:
the farmers overcropped the land
Synonyms:
overcrop; overcultivate
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "overcultivate" is one way to...):
crop; cultivate; work (prepare for crops)
Domain category:
agriculture; farming; husbandry (the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something