| 单词 |
over-people |
| 释义 |
ˌover-ˈpeople, v. [over- 27.] trans. To people too much, overstock with people. (Chiefly in pa. pple.) So ˌover-ˈpeopled ppl. a.
1683Apol. Prot. France Pref. 2 Now that we should be over-peopled, I think there is no danger. 1711Shaftesbury Charac. (1737) III. 42 Nothing more dangerous than the over-peopling any manufacture. 1821Byron Cain i. i. 520 The unpeopled earth—and the o'er-peopled Hell. 1830Miss Mitford Village Ser. iv. (1863) 262 That fair demesne of theirs, which is to say, over-peopled. 1832H. Martineau Weal & Woe vi. 83 The half-starved multitudes of an over-peopled kingdom. |

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