Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To permit animals to graze (vegetational cover) excessively, to the detriment of the vegetation.
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- verb transitive to
graze land excessively , to the detriment of the land and its vegetation - verb intransitive to allow animals to graze excessively
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Examples
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One of the key features of digital commons - like free software or science - is that there is no tragedy in the classical sense: it is impossible for users to "overgraze" a digital commons in the way they can a physical one.
Tragedy and Travesty of the Commons glyn moody 2007
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One of the key features of digital commons - like free software or science - is that there is no tragedy in the classical sense: it is impossible for users to "overgraze" a digital commons in the way they can a physical one.
Archive 2007-11-01 glyn moody 2007
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We are supposed to allow them to overgraze the West, Lummis said.
House Votes To Cut BLM Budget Over Wild Horse Roundups In West AP 2011
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The prey then overgraze, taking food and habitat from other species and lowering the ecosystem's biodiversity.
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We are supposed to allow them to overgraze the West, Lummis said.
House Votes To Cut BLM Budget Over Wild Horse Roundups In West AP 2011
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But if the program isn't funded appropriately and horses are not removed, "wild horses will continue to overgraze the range . which means starving horses," Simpson said.
House Votes To Cut BLM Budget Over Wild Horse Roundups In West AP 2011
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Once this grass had dominated the landscape the way the sage did now, until early cattlemen had allowed their cattle to overgraze it.
Western Man Janet Dailey 2011
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The prey then overgraze, taking food and habitat from other species and lowering the ecosystem's biodiversity.
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Once this grass had dominated the landscape the way the sage did now, until early cattlemen had allowed their cattle to overgraze it.
Western Man Janet Dailey 2011
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But if the program isn't funded appropriately and horses are not removed, "wild horses will continue to overgraze the range . which means starving horses," Simpson said.
House Votes To Cut BLM Budget Over Wild Horse Roundups In West AP 2011
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