overgrazing
English
Verb
overgrazing
- present participle and gerund of overgraze
Noun
overgrazing (countable and uncountable, plural overgrazings)
- Excessive grazing to an extent that the land is damaged.
- 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: 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
excessive grazing to an extent that the land is damaged
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