verb
- to harvest too much of a crop or natural resource, often depleting it beyond sustainable levels
Usage: third person singular present tense
Examples
- The company overharvests the forest without replanting trees.
- When a region overharvests fish, the population cannot recover quickly.
- The farmer overharvests his fields year after year, reducing soil quality.
- If we continue to overharvest natural resources, future generations will suffer.
- The government warned that the industry overharvests shellfish from the bay.
- Climate change worsens when society overharvests forests for timber.