overcull

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verb

To cull excessively.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

verbovercull (third-person singular simple present overculls, present participle overculling, simple past and past participle overculled)

present singular third person overculls · participle present overculling · participle past overculled · past overculled

  1. To cull excessively.

    Do not overcull. When egg prices or cull prices, or both, are low, there is a tendency to overcull.

    1966, Pacific Poultryman, volume 72, page 21

Origin

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