overpeople
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Verb[edit]
overpeople (third-person singular simple present overpeoples, present participle overpeopling, simple past and past participle overpeopled)
- (transitive) To people too densely; overpopulate.
- 1868, David Meredith Reese, Fundamentals of Zoology, page 349:
- The drones are killed at the end of summer, but the queen and great part of the workers remain ; and when, in the summer, they increase so much as to overpeople the hive, colonies are sent forth with young queens, in search of another habitation.
- 1897, George MacDonald, Salted with Fire: A Story of a Minister, page 304:
- At breakfast James made request to his father that he might be allowed to make of a certain little-used loft a room for Isy and himself, so as not to overpeople the house.
Noun[edit]
overpeople
- plural of overperson