overfishing
Meaning of overfishing
verb
To fish excessively, often substantially reducing over several years the supply of one or more species of fish in an area.
noun
Fishing that reduces the stock of remaining fish in an area to below that which is acceptable.
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Hyphenation of overfishing
over-fish-ing
- It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
- overfishing is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
Translation of overfishing
- French: surpêche
- Portuguese: sobrepesca
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