overpeople

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overpeople

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From over- + people.

verb overpeoples · overpeopling · overpeopled

  1. transitive To people too densely; overpopulate. 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.

noun

  1. plural plural of overperson

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@misc{overpeople_2026,
  title = {overpeople},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/overpeople},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}