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overtrapped

overtrapped is the simple past and past participle of overtrap.

Meaning of overtrap

Verb

overtrap (third-person singular simple present overtraps, present participle overtrapping, simple past and past participle overtrapped)

  1. To put too many traps in (an area) or among (an animal population), and thus to trap too many (animals, for their population to recover).
    • [...] from the Europeans, they began to overtrap the forests in search of pelts to trade. To overtrap is to kill too many animals, causing the animal population to decrease.2005, Janet Palazzo-Craig, The Ojibwe of Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and North Dakota, →ISBN, page 33

Questions about overtrapped

What is overtrapped the simple past and past participle of?
Overtrapped is the simple past and past participle of overtrap.

Words near overtrapped in the dictionary

  1. overtranslations
  2. overtransmission
  3. overtransmit
  4. overtransmitted
  5. overtrap
  6. overtrapped
  7. overtrapping
  8. overtraps
  9. overtravel
  10. overtread
  11. overtreading

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