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overcrop

overcrop verb: to cultivate land excessively and thus exhaust its fertility.

Verb

overcrop (third-person singular simple present overcrops, present participle overcropping, simple past and past participle overcropped)

  1. To cultivate land excessively and thus exhaust its fertility.

Forms of overcrop

third-person singular presentovercrops
present participleovercropping
past participleovercropped
pastovercropped

Origin of overcrop

From over- + crop.

Questions about overcrop

What does overcrop mean?
Overcrop means to cultivate land excessively and thus exhaust its fertility.
What part of speech is overcrop?
Overcrop is a verb.
What is the past tense of overcrop?
The past tense of overcrop is overcropped.

Words near overcrop in the dictionary

  1. overcriticized
  2. overcriticizes
  3. overcriticizing
  4. overcroft
  5. overcrofts
  6. overcrop
  7. overcropped
  8. overcropping
  9. overcrops
  10. overcross
  11. overcrossed

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