In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
OVERPOPULATE
overpopulate
(verb) cause to have too great a population; “Some towns in New Jersey are becoming overpopulated”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
overpopulate (third-person singular simple present overpopulates, present participle overpopulating, simple past and past participle overpopulated)
To fill with too many individuals; to exceed the capacity of a region to contain the population.
Source: Wiktionary
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ACCURATE
(adjective) conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy; “an accurate reproduction”; “the accounting was accurate”; “accurate measurements”; “an accurate scale”
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