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OVERCULTIVATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does overcultivate mean?
• OVERCULTIVATE (verb)
The verb OVERCULTIVATE has 1 sense:
1. to exhaust by excessive cultivation
Familiarity information: OVERCULTIVATE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they overcultivate ... he / she / it overcultivates
Past simple: overcultivated
Past participle: overcultivated
-ing form: overcultivating
... he / she / it overcultivates Past simple: overcultivated
Past participle: overcultivated
-ing form: overcultivating
Sense 1
Meaning:
To exhaust by excessive cultivation
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Synonyms:
overcrop; overcultivate
Context example:
the farmers overcropped the land
Hypernyms (to "overcultivate" is one way to...):
crop; cultivate; work (prepare for crops)
Domain category:
agriculture; farming; husbandry (the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
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