Depasture
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To eat up, consume; to strip. archaic
"Earth like the patient was whose lively blood / Hath overcome at last some sickness strong, / Whose feeble limbs had been the bait and food / Whereon his strange disease depastur'd long."
- 2 To feed or pasture; to graze. archaic
"The butter, rich and yellow as the gowaned bank on which the milky mother has depastured, is probably taken directly from the churn."
Example
More examples"Earth like the patient was whose lively blood / Hath overcome at last some sickness strong, / Whose feeble limbs had been the bait and food / Whereon his strange disease depastur'd long."
Etymology
From de- + pasture.
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