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What does overpopulate mean?

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Verb
  1. To fill with too many individuals; to exceed the capacity of a region to contain the population.
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They mature too quickly either to train them or get to know them properly, begin having babies of their own within minutes of birth, and rapidly overpopulate the ship.
Unfortunately the plan works rather too well, and the mice begin to overpopulate the church.
The whole idea is that nature needs a method for rapidly ridding itself of dysfunctional species that overpopulate and absorb resources too rapidly.
Hopefully the Leaders could find a better partner for her, or else the vampires could very well overpopulate the area.
By and large, their populations are dominated by the bankers, hedge-fund workers, lawyers and accountants who have moved with the financial-service firms that overpopulate the islands.
As well, urchins tend to overpopulate certain areas, destroying the very kelp beds they need for feeding.

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