overfell
- simplepast andpastparticiple ofoverfall
Fromover- +fell.
overfell (third-person singular simple presentoverfells,present participleoverfelling,simple past and past participleoverfelled)
- Tofell too manytrees.
1935,The Indian Forester - Volume 61, page746:In the Punjab increment is reserved against contingencies, a conservative and therefore excellent scheme, since there has been a tendency tooverfell and to accept too optimistic rotation figures.
- 1953, Great Britain. Colonial Office,Colonial Research Studies (issues 8-15, page 165)
- He was a careful gardener and did notoverfell.
2019, Fanren Zeng,Introduction to Ecological Aesthetics, page175:This cautions humanity, that if we overly pursue the economic and utilitarian aims of “usefulness,”overfell forests, abuse resources, and pollute the environment, we will ultimately reach the point of exhausting all resources and degrading the environment into a totally useless one;
