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Definition of Overgraze
1. Verb. (transitive) to graze land excessively, to the detriment of the land and its vegetation ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive) to allow animals to graze excessively ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overgraze
1. [v -GRAZED, -GRAZING, -GRAZES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overgraze
Literary usage of Overgraze
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Environmental Theology by Richard Cartwright Austin (1990)
"Frustrated people kick their dogs, while desperate farmers plow steep hillsides
and allow their cattle to overgraze pastures. In exploitative societies ..."
2. Plant Indicators: The Relation of Plant Communities to Process and Practice by Frederic Edward Clements (1920)
"... reducing the distance to water, and hence decreasing the tendency of cattle
to overgraze the areas about wells or tanks and to ..."
3. Productive Soils: The Fundamentals of Successful Soil Management and by Wilbert Walter Weir (1920)
"Much can be done to decrease and prevent erosion by preventing fires from sweeping
through forests and over cut-over lands, by ceasing to overgraze the ..."
4. Property Rights: A Practical Guide to Freedom and Prosperity by Terry Lee Anderson, Laura E. Huggins (2003)
"The phrase derives from the incentive to overgraze pastures that are open to all
grazers. Each potential grazer has an incentive to fatten his livestock on ..."
5. Western Grazing Grounds and Forest Ranges: A History of the Live-stock by Will Croft Barnes (1913)
"Therefore under this system the desire to overgraze an area is not so great, and
thus the carrying capacity of the ranges is continually being improved. ..."
6. The Essentials of Agriculture by Henry Jackson Waters (1915)
"... making the second growth is almost as hurtful as to overgraze it in early
spring and for the same reason. The food stored in the rootstocks by the first ..."
7. Farmer's Cyclopedia of Live Stock by Earley Vernon Wilcox, Clarence Beaman Smith (1908)
"A number of these men with large bands all aiming for the same point, tend to
greatly overgraze certain areas, denuding them of grass and forage plants and ..."
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