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overinhabited en · ADJ

Etymology

From over- + inhabited.

Meanings

1. Inhabited by too large a population.
   • The suburbs are supposedly where nothing happens, like Auden said about what poetry doesn't do; an overinhabited faux terrain dozing in inertia, occasionally disrupted by “a Columbine” or “an Oklahoma City” or a hurricane to remind us what's really real. 2014, Richard Ford, Let Me Be Frank With You: A Frank Bascombe Book:

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