overpopulate

[oh-ver-pop-yuh-leyt]

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

Nearby words

First recorded in 1865–70; over- + populate

Related formso·ver·pop·u·la·tion, noun

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Your existence contributes to over-population, climate change, and species extinction.
Keep Christmas Commercialized!|P. J. O’Rourke|December 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Perhaps ironically, many hunters claimed to be “culling” the herd, thereby saving it from over-population or starvation.
Texas' Gunslinging Governor|Kinky Friedman|April 29, 2010|DAILY BEAST
The first prime cause of over-population in India, he asserts, is early marriage.
The New World of Islam|Lothrop Stoddard
Over-population: the tendency to multiply offspring beyond the food supply.
The Arena|Various

Yet there are other ways of meeting this over-population beside the crude method of war.
The Task of Social Hygiene|Havelock Ellis
I hope for another end, though not, indeed, from any of the three remedies for over-population commonly suggested by economists.
Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy|John Ruskin
Some years ago the cuckoo cry of the political quacks was over-population.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.|Various