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Definition of Overbreed
1. v. t. To breed to excess.
Definition of Overbreed
1. Verb. To breed excessively. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overbreed
1. to breed to excess [v -BRED, -BREEDING, -BREEDS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overbreed
Literary usage of Overbreed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pioneers of Birth Control in England and America by Victor Robinson (1919)
"miseries of over-population and overcrowding, must be given wholesale to the
masses likely to overbreed. The time is past when knowledge can be kept as the ..."
2. History of the 305th Field Artillery by Wadsworth Camp, Charles Wadsworth Camp (1919)
"Critical eyes would run down the line, taking in the badly used thoroughbred, a
thing of possibilities; the narrow-chested overbreed; the useful animal of ..."
3. Year Book and Proceedings of the Annual Convention by American Seed Trade Association (1902)
"We could not breed it out even were it desirable to do so, for in the effort we
should so overbreed the variety as to destroy its constitution and ..."
4. Annual Report of the Indiana State Board of Agriculture by Indiana State Board of Agriculture (1893)
"The care of the young hoar should be to not overbreed him. I think that one
service per day is as much aa a six to eight months boar should be allowed, ..."
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