overgrazing
English edit
Verb edit
overgrazing
- present participle and gerund of overgraze
Noun edit
overgrazing (countable and uncountable, plural overgrazings)
- 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.
Translations edit
excessive grazing to an extent that the land is damaged
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