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outpopulate
verb[ T ]
(alsoout-populate)uk /ˌaʊtˈpɒp.jə.leɪt/ us /ˌaʊtˈpɑː.pjə.leɪt/
to have a larger population(= number of people or animals living in a place) than another group:
The UN has predicted that Nigeria will outpopulate the US by 2050.
The early Cenozoic era was when mammals began to out-populate dinosaurs.
According to some, robots are expected to outpopulate humans by the year 2048.
He describes how flies may have out-populated the residents by about a million to one.
Millennials now number around 86 million, which means they’ve outpopulated the Baby Boomer generation by seven percent.
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