What is "overpopulate"

Usage examples of "overpopulate".

An hour before the opening of court he crossed the bridge into High Street, which was then as picturesquely Gothic and decaying and overpopulated as the Cowgate, but high-set, wind-swept and sun-searched, all the way up the sloping mile from Holyrood Palace to the Castle.

Vaguely he seemed to understand that, in that great new land of the West, in the open-air, healthy life of the ranches, where the conditions of earning a livelihood were of the easiest, refinement among the younger women was easily to be found--not the refinement of education, nor culture, but the natural, intuitive refinement of the woman, not as yet defiled and crushed out by the sordid, strenuous life-struggle of overpopulated districts.

In an underpopulated world life could begin at conception, making abortion illegal, while in an overpopulated world life might begin at birth.

Old Delhi, as this sector of the city was called, was a maze of narrow alleys and overpopulated markets, but, no matter how swiftly he raced, he could not outrun the riot, which was spreading even faster than the blazing inferno it had spawned.

Shop each world just long enough to find something wrong-'Black Hats,' war, low technology, no human population, bad climate, overpopulated, or factor X.

Shop each world just long enough to find something wrong - 'Black Hats,' war, low technology, no human population, bad climate, overpopulated, or factor X.

Shop each world just long enough to find something wrong -- 'Black Hats,' war, low technology, no human population, bad climate, overpopulated, or factor X.

Indeed, oxygen breathers had perpetrated their own ecological holocausts in the Five Galaxies, sometimes overpopulating and using up planets much faster than they could restore themselves.

It was so overpopulated with algae and weeds that Margo had only rarely been able to catch sight of a fish peering out through the murk.

If anybody found out nonperverted sex is that good, they'd overpopulate the world!

The Chatovarians, being overpopulated at home, always overhired and as this job had been “rush” and “for the boss himself,” they had accumulated a very huge crew.

There has to be a natural control of numbers, so that a given species neither overpopulates nor dies out.

All of them must he identified, and since the ethics or the Human/Mrdini Alliance do not include species genocide, how can the Hivers be prevented from following their cyclic behavior of overpopulating their planets and looking tor new worlds to inhabit?

She had learned in her studies of galactic history that this was because, since ancient times, Old Terra kept overpopulating itself.

For years I’ve been waiting for nature to react to our environmental bullshit, tell us to stop overpopulating and depleting resources, to shut up and stop messing around and just die.