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overbreeding

overbreeding is the present participle and gerund of overbreed.

Meaning of overbreed

Verb

overbreed (third-person singular simple present overbreeds, present participle overbreeding, simple past and past participle overbred)

  1. To breed excessively.
    • At different times in different nations the needs and the duties differ widely. Professor Ross has shown that China has suffered immeasurably because of the reckless overbreeding of its people. France is now in hazard of her national existence because of exactly the opposite cause.1917, Theodore Roosevelt, The Foes of Our Own Household, New York: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC, page 260

Questions about overbreeding

What is overbreeding the present participle and gerund of?
Overbreeding is the present participle and gerund of overbreed.

Words near overbreeding in the dictionary

  1. overbreathes
  2. overbreathing
  3. overbreathings
  4. overbred
  5. overbreed
  6. overbreeding
  7. overbreeds
  8. overbrew
  9. overbrewed
  10. overbrewing
  11. overbrews

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