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Definition of Overpopulating
1. overpopulate [v] - See also: overpopulate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overpopulating
Literary usage of Overpopulating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Premises of Political Economy: Being a Re-examination of Certain by Simon Nelson Patten (1885)
"... cannot be classed either among moral restraints nor among any other kind of
checks to overpopulating, since by them the need of any checks is removed. ..."
2. Woman and the New Race by Margaret Sanger (1920)
"Or we may go on overpopulating the earth and have our famines and our wars while
the earth exists. Or we can accept the third, sane, ..."
3. Expansion of Races by Charles Edward Woodruff (1909)
"In 1492 there were 300000 filthy, savage Indians overpopulating a land which now
supports 85000000 or 90000000, and the savage had to step aside, ..."
4. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1864)
"Evidence of the universal existence of such a law, and of its applicability to
the purposes of man in "affording a check to an overpopulating of the ..."
5. The Place of Agriculture in Reconstruction: A Study of National Programs of by James Bale Morman (1919)
"... have their effect in depopulating rural districts and in overpopulating the
towns and cities. The struggle to succeed on a farm is becoming more intense ..."
6. Pediatrics (1902)
"... and the fear of overpopulating the earth, we have come.after a lapse of one
century,to the other extreme—a sterility greater and fecundity less than ..."
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