Meaning

1 senses

  1. To fill with too many individuals; to exceed the capacity of a region to contain the population.

    cause to have too great a population

Examples

3 sentences

  1. Our planet is overpopulated.

    ruНаша планета перенаселена. — marafon

    deUnser Planet ist überbevölkert. — Rovo

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  2. Beavers are overpopulated here.

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  3. Bears are overpopulated in Transylvania.

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Translations

2 languages

Forms

overpopulates, overpopulating, overpopulated, overpopulated
Base formoverpopulate · to overpopulate
3rd person singularoverpopulates
Present participleoverpopulating
Past simpleoverpopulated
Past participleoverpopulated

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyoverpopulate
he, she, itoverpopulates

Past simpleLesson

all personsoverpopulated

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave overpopulated
he, she, ithas overpopulated

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill overpopulate

Word family

1 related words
Relatedoverpopulation

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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