1. to exhaust (land) by growing too many crops without allowing proper recovery
Usage: agriculture

Examples

• The farmer overcropped his fields for three consecutive seasons.
• Continuous planting without rotation will overcrop the soil.
• They learned not to overcrop their land after the poor harvest.
• The agricultural advisor warned against overcropping the fertile valley.
• Years of overcropping left the once-productive farm barren.
• Modern farmers use crop rotation to avoid overcropping their fields.