overfell

English

Etymology 1

Verb

overfell

1. simple past and past participle of overfall

Etymology 2

From over- +‎ fell.

Verb

overfell (third-person singular simple present overfells, present participle overfelling, simple past and past participle overfelled)

1. To fell too many trees.
   • 1935, The Indian Forester - Volume 61, page 746:

     In the Punjab increment is reserved against contingencies, a conservative and therefore excellent scheme, since there has been a tendency to overfell 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 not overfell.

   • 2019, Fanren Zeng, Introduction to Ecological Aesthetics, page 175:

     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;

Anagrams

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