overpopulate

A verb used to indicate the act of filling an area with too many people or organisms, exceeding the capacity of the environment.

• 🇨🇳动词，表示使某地区的生物或人口数量过多，超过环境的承载能力。

1. Cause excessive population B2 formal

   To cause an area or environment to have too many inhabitants, exceeding its capacity or resources.

   • Urban sprawl can overpopulate a region, straining its infrastructure.
   • The introduction of a non-native species can overpopulate an ecosystem.
   • If we overpopulate the city, housing and water supplies will become scarce.

   🇨🇳使人口过剩

   同义词: cramfloodovercrowdpack

• overpopulated past participle
• overpopulated past simple
• overpopulating present participle
• overpopulates third person singular