depasture

vt. 使吃草, 放牧, 饲养 vi. 吃草

词形变化

depastured depastures 三单 depastures depasturing depasturing 现在分词 depastured 过去式 depastured 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To eat up, consume; to strip.

    古体

    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. 2.

    To feed or pasture; to graze.

    古体

    The butter, rich and yellow as the gowaned bank on which the milky mother has depastured, is probably taken directly from the churn.

词源

From de- + pasture.

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