overpeople

English

Etymology

over- +‎ people

Verb

overpeople (third-person singular simple present overpeoples, present participle overpeopling, simple past and past participle overpeopled)

1. (transitive) To people too densely; overpopulate.
   • 1868, David Meredith Reese, Fundamentals of Zoology, page 349:

     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.

   • 1897, George MacDonald, Salted with Fire: A Story of a Minister, page 304:

     At breakfast James made request to his father that he might be allowed to make of a certain little-used loft a room for Isy and himself, so as not to overpeople the house.

Noun

overpeople

1. plural of overperson