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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of overcrop.

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Examples

  • "As a result of the unjust distribution of land, agricultural land in the former homelands has been heavily overgrazed and overcropped for years."

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • Farming methods were primitive, the soil had been overcropped, and artificial fertilizer was a rarity.

    The Nobel Peace Prize 1970 - Presentation Speech 1970

  • As each ranger has his land assigned to him and no one else can use it, the grass is not overcropped as it often is in regions outside the forests.

    Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Mary Huston Gregory

  • Some of her early tales, before these, were a little "raw": and most of her later work showed (as did Anthony Trollope's and that of other though not all very prolific novelists) that the field had been overcropped.

    The English Novel George Saintsbury 1889

  • The lands are all overcropped and under-stocked with cattle and sheep from the want of pasture lands.

    A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II William Sleeman 1822

  • Þ²ÛÛ Û other grp undercropped bottom and overcropped top.

    The Mexican Taint Feedburner RSS Feed The Anomaly 2010

  • Although watchable, the image is filmed from an angle and it's also heavily overcropped (fullscreen resolution).

    Releaselog | RLSLOG.net 2008

  • NUKE: overcropped ar changes for imax scenes not cropped to fullest frame

    Releaselog | RLSLOG.net 2008

  • For his part, Parker contends he is responsible for nothing more than elevating the overall quality of wines by penalizing those who fashion overcropped, diluted, substandard wine marketed as liquid sunlight behind the banner of a famous château’s crest.

    Investing in Liquid Assets David Sokolin 2008

  • For his part, Parker contends he is responsible for nothing more than elevating the overall quality of wines by penalizing those who fashion overcropped, diluted, substandard wine marketed as liquid sunlight behind the banner of a famous château’s crest.

    Investing in Liquid Assets David Sokolin 2008

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