Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb overpopulate

1 sense of overpopulate

Sense 1
overpopulate -- (cause to have too great a population; "Some towns in New Jersey are becoming overpopulated")
       => populate, dwell, live, inhabit -- (inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of; "People lived in Africa millions of years ago"; "The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted"; "this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean"; "deer are populating the woods")