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Meaning of "overhunt" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF OVERHUNT

overhunt  [ˌəʊvəˈhʌnt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OVERHUNT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Overhunt is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb overhunt in English.

WHAT DOES OVERHUNT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of overhunt in the English dictionary

The definition of overhunt in the dictionary is to hunt in an unsustainable manner.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO OVERHUNT

PRESENT

Present
I overhunt
you overhunt
he/she/it overhunts
we overhunt
you overhunt
they overhunt
Present continuous
I am overhunting
you are overhunting
he/she/it is overhunting
we are overhunting
you are overhunting
they are overhunting
Present perfect
I have overhunted
you have overhunted
he/she/it has overhunted
we have overhunted
you have overhunted
they have overhunted
Present perfect continuous
I have been overhunting
you have been overhunting
he/she/it has been overhunting
we have been overhunting
you have been overhunting
they have been overhunting
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I overhunted
you overhunted
he/she/it overhunted
we overhunted
you overhunted
they overhunted
Past continuous
I was overhunting
you were overhunting
he/she/it was overhunting
we were overhunting
you were overhunting
they were overhunting
Past perfect
I had overhunted
you had overhunted
he/she/it had overhunted
we had overhunted
you had overhunted
they had overhunted
Past perfect continuous
I had been overhunting
you had been overhunting
he/she/it had been overhunting
we had been overhunting
you had been overhunting
they had been overhunting
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will overhunt
you will overhunt
he/she/it will overhunt
we will overhunt
you will overhunt
they will overhunt
Future continuous
I will be overhunting
you will be overhunting
he/she/it will be overhunting
we will be overhunting
you will be overhunting
they will be overhunting
Future perfect
I will have overhunted
you will have overhunted
he/she/it will have overhunted
we will have overhunted
you will have overhunted
they will have overhunted
Future perfect continuous
I will have been overhunting
you will have been overhunting
he/she/it will have been overhunting
we will have been overhunting
you will have been overhunting
they will have been overhunting
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would overhunt
you would overhunt
he/she/it would overhunt
we would overhunt
you would overhunt
they would overhunt
Conditional continuous
I would be overhunting
you would be overhunting
he/she/it would be overhunting
we would be overhunting
you would be overhunting
they would be overhunting
Conditional perfect
I would have overhunt
you would have overhunt
he/she/it would have overhunt
we would have overhunt
you would have overhunt
they would have overhunt
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been overhunting
you would have been overhunting
he/she/it would have been overhunting
we would have been overhunting
you would have been overhunting
they would have been overhunting
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you overhunt
we let´s overhunt
you overhunt
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to overhunt
Past participle
overhunted
Present Participle
overhunting
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH OVERHUNT


beachfront
ˈbiːtʃfrʌnt
blunt
blʌnt
bunt
bʌnt
confront
kənˈfrʌnt
cunt
kʌnt
forefront
ˈfɔːˌfrʌnt
front
frʌnt
headhunt
ˈhɛdhʌnt
house-hunt
ˈhaʊshʌnt
hunt
hʌnt
manhunt
ˈmænˌhʌnt
molehunt
ˈməʊlˈhʌnt
outhunt
ˌaʊtˈhʌnt
punt
pʌnt
runt
rʌnt
still-hunt
stɪl hʌnt
stunt
stʌnt
upfront
ˈʌpˈfrʌnt
waterfront
ˈwɔːtəˌfrʌnt
wavefront
ˈweɪvˌfrʌnt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OVERHUNT

overhead projector
overhead valve
overhead-valve engine
overheads
overheap
overhear
overheat
overheated
overheating
overhent
overhigh
overhit
overhold
overholy
overhomogenise
overhomogenize
overhope
overhot
overhung
overhype

WORDS THAT END LIKE OVERHUNT

Cheshunt
drag hunt
fox hunt
in the hunt
job hunt
murder hunt
national hunt
scavenger hunt
shunt
stag hunt
still hunt
treasure hunt
witch hunt
witch-hunt

Synonyms and antonyms of overhunt in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «overhunt» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OVERHUNT

Find out the translation of overhunt to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of overhunt from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «overhunt» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

overhunt
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

overhunt
570 millions of speakers

English

overhunt
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

overhunt
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

overhunt
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

overhunt
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

overhunt
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

overhunt
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

overhunt
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Memburu
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

overhunt
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

overhunt
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

overhunt
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Overhunt
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

overhunt
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

overhunt
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अधिकप्राप्ती
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

overhunt
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

overhunt
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

overhunt
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

overhunt
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

overhunt
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

overhunt
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

overhunt
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

overhunt
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

overhunt
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of overhunt

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OVERHUNT»

The term «overhunt» is barely ever used and occupies the 200.969 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «OVERHUNT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «overhunt» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «overhunt» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about overhunt

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OVERHUNT»

Discover the use of overhunt in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to overhunt and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Radical Bowhunter: Serious Tactics for Taking Trophy Whitetails
If you overhunt one spot, you risk repatterning the bucks or pushing them out of the area completely. A radical bowhunter finds several prime food locations that the bucks are using so he does not overhunt one place and ruin the spot. Armed  ...
Dick Scorzafava, 2006
2
The Ethics of Anthropology and Amerindian Research: ...
This suggested that although the ancient Maya did not consistently overhunt their prey base, in some circumstances, particularly when political pressures were high, they did overhunt the local deer populations around some sites.
Richard J. Chacon, Rubén G. Mendoza, 2011
3
Elusive Empires: Constructing Colonialism in the Ohio ...
The market gradually reoriented this ruling presumption about hunting, and in one region after another it caused Indians to overhunt game populations and destroy ecosystems. For the Shawnee and Delaware Indians moving west from ...
Eric Hinderaker, 1999
4
Earth Care: World Folktales to Talk About
A Miskito legend from Nicaragua about hunters who abuse their powers and overhunt with modern weapons. 'The Magic Box" in The Way of the Storyteller by Ruth Sawyer (New York: Viking, 1942). In this Italian folktale, Tonio inherits a box  ...
‎2005
5
The London Quarterly Review
... temper which leads men to overhunt a beaten enemy, to drive a good cause to excess, to swear allegiance to a formula, or to pursue an impracticable ideal, ever threw its shadow upon Lord Castlereagh's serene, impassive intelligence.
‎1862
6
The Rotarian
Some challenges are helping people remember how their ancestors might have preserved and protected a balance in the natural environment around them, which for many communities is the only sustainable future. If they overhunt, if they cut ...
7
We are Here: Politics of Aboriginal Land Tenure
However, they did not overhunt moose or other furbearers. Simultaneously, they petitioned the government to restore their exclusive use and effective control over resources so that they could reestablish beaver populations and return to good ...
Edwin N. Wilmsen, 1990
8
Down to Earth : Nature's Role in American History: Nature's ...
In the late sixteenth century, such hats were all the rage in England and France, a trend that led to the eventual annihilation of Europe's beavers and the shift in focus toward America. As early as the end of the seventeenth century, overhunt- ...
Ted Steinberg Professor of History and Law Case Western Reserve University, 2002
9
Hunting for Sustainability in Tropical Forests
Human groups that lack behavior designed to conserve will not necessarily overhunt (Alvard 1993a). Studies that have shown evidence for overexploitation by subsistence hunting populations, for example, usually do so only for a limited. 214.
John G. Robinson, Elizabeth L. Bennett, 2013
10
People in Nature: Wildlife Conservation in South and Central ...
One of the fundamental aspects of sustainable wildlife use is the biological capacity of species to be used sustainably: if species are overhunt- ed then there is no scope for sustainable use. Wildlife management in the Neotropics takes a ...
Kirsten M. Silvius, Richard E. Bodmer, José M. V. Fragoso, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OVERHUNT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term overhunt is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Bill Marchel: Three rules for developing food plots for deer
Don't overhunt your food plots. Hunting a particular stand only a few times can alert deer and scare them off. • Hunt only when the wind is in ... «Minneapolis Star Tribune, Jul 15»
2
Are There Logical Limits to Self-Maximization?
It leads predators to overhunt prey, destroying themselves, and their dumb self-maximizing genes. Somehow economic self-interest has become as dumb, often ... «Big Think, Jun 15»
3
Global Ocean Faces Dramatic Wildlife Loss
“On land, we usually hunt, and if we overhunt, we can drive a species to extinction,” said McCauley. “However, in the ocean, we pollute their ... «The Bottom Line, Jan 15»
4
Debate continues over hunting allocation policy
... open season gives them the opportunity to overhunt. That, in turn, would land sheep on the Limited Entry Hunting (LEH) list which really limits ... «The Free Press, Jan 15»
5
Outdoors: When does February get here?
My advice is to not overhunt your stands but give the deer and yourself a little break for just a couple of weeks. Go purchase a grunt tube, find ... «Montgomery Advertiser, Jan 15»
6
There's No Holiday Glee for Reindeer in Captivity
Christmas for reindeer would be the freedom to roam the Arctic tundra, not a brightly-lit mall filled with the species who overhunt them. I grew up ... «Care2.com, Dec 14»
7
Stephen Corry: conservation must work with, not against, indigenous …
... which prove that the Bushmen don't overhunt as claimed; studies of the effects of regular indigenous undergrowth firing, swidden agriculture, ... «The Ecologist, Nov 14»
8
Maasai homeland to be sold to Dubai royal family for hunting reserve
... that tribal peoples are incapable of managing their lands, that they overhunt, overgraze and overuse the resources on their lands. “But it is ... «Frost Illustrated, Nov 14»
9
Maasai Homeland to be Sold to Dubai Royal Family for Hunting …
... that tribal peoples are incapable of managing their lands, that they overhunt, overgraze and overuse the resources on their lands. “But it is ... «Lasentinel, Nov 14»
10
How the Kalahari bushmen and other tribespeople are being evicted …
... is based on unscientific assumptions that tribal peoples are incapable of managing their lands, that they overhunt, overgraze and overuse the ... «The Guardian, Nov 14»

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