| 单词 | overpeople |
| 释义 | overpeople in British English (ˌəʊvəˈpiːpəl) verb (transitive) to overpopulate overpopulate in British English (ˌəʊvəˈpɒpjʊˌleɪt) verb (transitive) to populate (a place) excessively overpeople in American English (ˌouvərˈpipəl) transitive verbWord forms: -pled, -pling to overpopulate The town has been overpeopled by those leaving the farms Word origin [1675–85; over- + people]This word is first recorded in the period 1675–85. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: mouthpiece, retouch, stoma, surf, upstreamover- is a prefixal use of over, occurring in various senses in compounds (overboard; overcoat; overhang; overlap; overlord; overrun; overthrow), and especially employed, with the sense of “over the limit,” “to excess,” “toomuch,” “too,” to form verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and nouns (overact; overcapitalize; overcrowd; overfull; overmuch; oversupply; overweight), and many others, mostly self-explanatory: a hyphen, which is commonly absent fromold or well-established formations, is sometimes used in new coinages or in any wordswhose component parts it may be desirable to set off distinctly |
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