overpeople

present singular third person overpeoples · participle present overpeopling · participle past overpeopled · past overpeopled

1. transitiveTo people too densely; overpopulate.

   At breakfast James made request to his father that he might be allowed to make of a certain little-used loft a room for Isy and himself, so as not to overpeople the house.

   1897, George MacDonald, Salted with Fire: A Story of a Minister, page 304

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   The drones are killed at the end of summer, but the queen and great part of the workers remain ; and when, in the summer, they increase so much as to overpeople the hive, colonies are sent forth with young queens, in search of another habitation.

   1868, David Meredith Reese, Fundamentals of Zoology, page 349

1. pluralplural of overperson