Definition of "overharvest" [overharvest]

• To harvest too much, especially at an unsustainably high level (verb)

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• ""Both studies highlight the importance of considering both climatic change and other human-caused factors such as overharvest in understanding the population dynamics of this and other species.""
• "He was convinced that with the proper care taken not to overharvest, the bounty offered up in this one bay alone could last for many centuries."
• "The elite overharvest deep groundwater for their new modern urban compounds and leisure centres."