overcrop

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verb

To cultivate land excessively and thus exhaust its fertility.

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overcultivate
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Meanings

verbovercrop (third-person singular simple present overcrops, present participle overcropping, simple past and past participle overcropped)

present singular third person overcrops · participle present overcropping · participle past overcropped · past overcropped

  1. To cultivate land excessively and thus exhaust its fertility.

Synonyms & antonyms

verbto exhaust by excessive cultivation

Similar
overcultivate
Broader
cultivatecropwork
Also see
overcultivate

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

From over- + crop.

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APA

overcrop. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overcrop

MLA

“overcrop.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overcrop. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “overcrop,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overcrop.

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