overgrazing
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English [edit]
Verb [edit]
overgrazing
- Present participle of overgraze.
Noun [edit]
overgrazing (uncountable)
- Excessive grazing to an extent that the land is damaged.
- 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 142:
- The law was intended to reduce overgrazing by cattle, but its impact would be to further curtail land for Africans.
- 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 142:
