outpopulate

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

out- +‎ populate

Verb[edit]

outpopulate (third-person singular simple present outpopulates, present participle outpopulating, simple past and past participle outpopulated)

  1. (transitive) To surpass in population; to outnumber.
    • 1996, Leslie J. Reagan, When Abortion Was a Crime:
      Antiabortion activists pointed out that immigrant families, many of them Catholic, were larger and would soon outpopulate native-born white Yankees and threaten their political power.