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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
overpeople .
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Examples
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And I am feeling hibernatory and overpeopled, which is always a pretty good sign that it's time for a couple of days of under-my-rock time.
they dragged him through the underbrush wearing three woolen coats and a dirty knife netcurmudgeon 2007
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Because I'm self-conscious about sucking in front of even more people, yeah, and also because I'm an introvert and large groups are tiring and I am seriously overpeopled these days.
eleanor trembles. eleanor moans. matociquala 2009
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He questioned Owen's premise that the world was too crowded, especially in terms of Working Men and their families, writing that "the world is not now overpeopled, nor is it likely to be in hundreds of generations."
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006
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I only affirm that the northern regions were not, when their irruptions subdued the Romans, overpeopled with regard to their real extent of territory, and power of fertility.
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So the desert likewise overpeopled itself upon occasion; and then there were heavings and thrustings of the crowded tribes as they elbowed themselves by natural courses towards the light.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003
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At its present point of vivification the scarecrow reminds me of some of the lukewarm and abortive characters composed of heterogeneous materials used for the thousandth time, and never worth using, with which romance writers (and myself, no doubt, among the rest) have so overpeopled the world of fiction.
Short Stories of Various Types Various
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"Industrial Resources" of Ireland -- Emigration again -- Ireland not overpeopled -- Description of England and Scotland in former times by
The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines John O'Rourke
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He then went on to prove that Ireland was not overpeopled; and as it was not, emigration, in his opinion, had not become a necessity for that country.
The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines John O'Rourke
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In the first place, he found every avenue leading to success wide open and certainly not overpeopled.
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In the first place, he found every avenue leading to success wide open and certainly not overpeopled.
A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After Bok, Edward 1921
bilby commented on the word overpeopled
"In the first place, he found every avenue leading to success wide open and certainly not overpeopled."
- Edward William Bok, 'The Americanization of Edward Bok'.
September 20, 2009