overpopulate
/oh-ver-pop-yuh-leyt/US // ˌoʊ vərˈpɒp yəˌleɪt //
人满为患,人口过剩,过度拥挤,人口过多
Definitions
v.有主动词 verb
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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.
Examples
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.”
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