Overcrop (Verb)
Meaning
To exhaust by excessive cultivation; "the farmers overcropped the land".
Classification
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing.
Examples
- The once fertile soil was severely depleted after years of intensive farming, a clear result of the farmers overcropping the land.
- If we continue to plant multiple crops every year, we risk overcropping the land and losing its productivity.
- Years of overcropping the land had left it barren and dry, barely capable of supporting any life.
- The environmental activists warned the villagers against overcropping the land, fearing it would lead to soil erosion and other ecological disasters.
- By rotating crops and allowing the land to rest, the farmer aimed to prevent overcropping the land that had been in her family for generations.