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OVERPOPULATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they overpopulate ... he / she / it overpopulates
Past simple: overpopulated
Past participle: overpopulated
-ing form: overpopulating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cause to have too great a population
Example:
Some towns in New Jersey are becoming overpopulated
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "overpopulate" is one way to...):
dwell; inhabit; live; populate (be an inhabitant of or reside in)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s PP
Derivation:
overpopulation (too much population)
