overpopulate

[ oh-ver-pop-yuh-leyt ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used with object)

, o·ver·pop·u·lat·ed, o·ver·pop·u·lat·ing.

to fill with an excessive number of people, straining available resources and facilities:
Expanding industry has overpopulated the western suburbs.

First recorded in 1865–70; over- + populate

Once the animal isn’t overpopulated, the calculus is different.

There are obviously areas where deer aren’t overpopulated, and you don’t do the landscape a favor by hunting them.

The question of why we age has produced a lot of false answers, such as, “We age because if we didn’t we would overpopulate the earth.”

April 18, 2024petrichor

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