Usually means: Exceeding sustainable numbers of organisms.
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  1. overpopulate: Merriam-Webster
  2. overpopulate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. overpopulate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. overpopulate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. overpopulate: Vocabulary.com
  6. overpopulate: Wordnik
  7. overpopulate: Wiktionary
  8. overpopulate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. overpopulate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. overpopulate: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. overpopulate: Dictionary.com
  12. overpopulate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Overpopulate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. overpopulate: Rhymezone
  15. overpopulate: FreeDictionary.org
  16. overpopulate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. overpopulate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. overpopulate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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Definitions from Wiktionary (overpopulate)

▸ verb:  To fill with too many individuals; to exceed the capacity of a region to contain the population.

Similar:
overcrowd, overpeople, overfill, burst at the seams, overflow, overcapacitate, overstuff, overbrim, overcharge, overburden, more...

Opposite:
underpopulate, depopulate, sparsely populated

Types:
teem, swarm, burst, crowd, infest, flood, more...
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Similar:
overcrowd, overpeople, overfill, burst at the seams, overflow, overcapacitate, overstuff, overbrim, overcharge, overburden, more...

Opposite:
underpopulate, depopulate, sparsely populated

Types:
teem, swarm, burst, crowd, infest, flood, more...



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