to overhunt
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7.3
- verb
- /ˌoʊvərˈhʌnt/
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- As Euro-American market forces penetrated their economy, the Choctaws were driven to overhunt deer populations to extinction and, in the process, destroyed their resources, environment, and economy.
Examples
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A set of traditional rules and beliefs prevented overhunting, as related by an elderly Kamba whose father had been a prominent elephant hunter: "Prior to the day of hunting, no hunter was allowed to sleep with his wife, as this would bring bad luck."
Academic text (2018) -
Kamba and Waata hunters limited the population of elephants to use them for food and many other purposes, but had no reason to begin overhunting them until the ivory trade reached Tsavo in late precolonial times.
Academic text (2018) -
The decisions by hunters to overhunt the buffalo had costs.
Academic text (1996) -
Why did Native Americans overhunt the buffalo?
Academic text (1996) -
"We overhunted him, honey.
Fiction book (2000) -
Overhunting.
Academic text (1992) -
Many Choctaws were glad to trade little-used and overhunted land in exchange for presents, now in the form of annuities.
Academic text (1999) -
You're overhunting, Scar.
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By the end of the eighteenth century, the deer population of the southeast had been drastically thinned by overhunting.
Academic text (1990) -
Hunters often overhunt certain species, leading to a significant decline in their populations.
Synonyms
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6.9
To take too many plants or animals so their numbers fall and cannot recover
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7.4
Use things from nature like fish or trees so much that they disappear
How Destructive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word overhunt combines over- meaning 'too much' and hunt meaning 'to chase animals'. Think of it like overcook or overfish—hunting so much that animal numbers become very low. So, to overhunt is to hunt animals so much that they become threatened.