overfished
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.79 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of overfish
adj
Fished to the point of sustained reduction of fish species population.
Example Sentences
- "More recently, researchers have reported that cod, overfished for decades off New England and the Canadian Maritime Provinces, have begun reproducing at younger ages and smaller sizes."
- "The Gulf of Thailand became more overfished than ever, causing acrimonious conflicts between domestic artisanal and large-scale fishers."
- "It is the most overfished of any hole that I know, this Nine Mile Hole."
Inflected Forms
more overfished (comparative)
most overfished (superlative)