overpeople
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of overpeople
Example Sentences
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In the first place, he found every avenue leading to success wide open and certainly not overpeopled.
From A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After by Haney, John Louis
I only affirm that the northern regions were not, when their irruptions subdued the Romans, overpeopled with regard to their real extent of territory, and power of fertility.
From Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Johnson, Samuel
Japan is overpeopled and is compelled to send her surplus population out of the country.
From Banzai! by Parabellum by Grautoff, Ferdinand Heinrich
He then went on to prove that Ireland was not overpeopled; and as it was not, emigration, in his opinion, had not become a necessity for that country.
From The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines by O'Rourke, John
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