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overbreeds

overbreeds is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 overbreeds

What is overbreeds the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Overbreeds is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overbreed.

Words near overbreeds in the dictionary

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

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