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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

outpopulate en · VERB

Etymology

From out- + populate.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To surpass in population; to outnumber.
    • Antiabortion activists pointed out that immigrant families, many of them Catholic, were larger and would soon outpopulate native-born white Yankees and threaten their political power. 1996, Leslie J. Reagan, When Abortion Was a Crime:

Forms

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outpopulates Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
outpopulated Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
outpopulated Tense=Past lexicographic
outpopulating Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic