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Definition of Overhunt
1. to deplete the supply of game in an area by hunting to excess [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overhunt
Literary usage of Overhunt
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essays by Robert Cecil Salisbury (1905)
"But no tinge of that enthusiastic temper which leads men to overhunt a beaten
enemy, to drive a good cause to excess, to swear allegiance to a formula, ..."
2. Dacre by Frances Talbot Parker Morley, Countess of Frances Talbot Parker Morley (1835)
""Well, now, do exert a little authority over your husband, and don't let him
overhunt again this year." "I hope he will not," replied Lady Henry ; " but he ..."
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