overpopulousadj.
/ˌəʊvəˈpɒpjᵿləs/, U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈpɑpjələs/ Too full of people or inhabitants; overpopulated.
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1628 O. Felltham Resolves (new ed.) 279 So the World and Nations, when they grow ouer-populous, they discharge themselues by Troupes, and Bands.
1630 Pathomachia i. iii. 5 The old Germanes and Gaules when their Countreys were ouer-populous, were wont to cast a Lot, so that halfe the People remained at home, the other moitie went to seeke new Habitations.
1819 W. Irving Sketch Bk. ii. 104 An old, highly finished, and over-populous state of society.
1878 J. T. Trowbridge Guy Vernon in G. P. Lathrop Masque of Poets iii. 233 A narrow business street, not over nice, But unromantically over-populous.
1934 Sci. Monthly 38 238 Selected from the age of eight or nine from overpopulous centuries, they lived in convents under the supervision of matrons.
1994 Lancet (Nexis) 10 Sept. 697 The Vatican had no right to condemn contraceptives in an overpopulous country like Egypt.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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- at the loose
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