overgrazing

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overgrazing

  1. present participle and gerund of overgraze

Noun[edit]

overgrazing (countable and uncountable, plural overgrazings)

  1. Excessive grazing to an extent that the land is damaged.
    • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus, published 2010, page 142:
      The law was intended to reduce overgrazing by cattle, but its impact would be to further curtail land for Africans.

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