overfell

verb

overfell

verb

Etymology From over- + fell.

1

To fell too many trees.

In the Punjab increment is reserved against contingencies, a conservative and therefore excellent scheme, since there has been a tendency to overfell and to accept too optimistic rotation figures.1935, The Indian Forester - Volume 61, page 746:
He was a careful gardener and did not overfell.1953, Great Britain. Colonial Office, Colonial Research Studies (issues 8-15, page 165)

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This cautions humanity, that if we overly pursue the economic and utilitarian aims of “usefulness,” overfell forests, abuse resources, and pollute the environment, we will ultimately reach the point of exhausting all resources and degrading the environment into a totally useless one;2019, Fanren Zeng, Introduction to Ecological Aesthetics, page 175:

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