overpopulate

1. 1.

   cause to have too great a population

   “Some towns in New Jersey are becoming overpopulated”

   Broaderpopulate

Other forms of overpopulate

past tense

overpopulated·

present participle

overpopulating·

third person

overpopulates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about overpopulate

What does overpopulate mean?

overpopulate means "cause to have too great a population".

How many syllables are in overpopulate?

overpopulate has 5 syllables: o-ver-po-pu-late. The stress falls on "po". In IPA it is /ˌoʊvɚˈpɑpjəleɪt/.

Is overpopulate a common word?

overpopulate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.