depasture

(diːˈpɑːstʃə)

1. (Agriculture) to graze or denude by grazing (a pasture, esp a meadow specially grown for the purpose)

2. (Agriculture) (tr) to pasture (cattle or sheep)

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depasture

Past participle: depastured
Gerund: depasturing

Imperative
depasture
depasture

Present
I depasture
you depasture
he/she/it depastures
we depasture
you depasture
they depasture

Preterite
I depastured
you depastured
he/she/it depastured
we depastured
you depastured
they depastured

Present Continuous
I am depasturing
you are depasturing
he/she/it is depasturing
we are depasturing
you are depasturing
they are depasturing

Present Perfect
I have depastured
you have depastured
he/she/it has depastured
we have depastured
you have depastured
they have depastured

Past Continuous
I was depasturing
you were depasturing
he/she/it was depasturing
we were depasturing
you were depasturing
they were depasturing

Past Perfect
I had depastured
you had depastured
he/she/it had depastured
we had depastured
you had depastured
they had depastured

Future
I will depasture
you will depasture
he/she/it will depasture
we will depasture
you will depasture
they will depasture

Future Perfect
I will have depastured
you will have depastured
he/she/it will have depastured
we will have depastured
you will have depastured
they will have depastured

Future Continuous
I will be depasturing
you will be depasturing
he/she/it will be depasturing
we will be depasturing
you will be depasturing
they will be depasturing

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been depasturing
you have been depasturing
he/she/it has been depasturing
we have been depasturing
you have been depasturing
they have been depasturing

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been depasturing
you will have been depasturing
he/she/it will have been depasturing
we will have been depasturing
you will have been depasturing
they will have been depasturing

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been depasturing
you had been depasturing
he/she/it had been depasturing
we had been depasturing
you had been depasturing
they had been depasturing

Conditional
I would depasture
you would depasture
he/she/it would depasture
we would depasture
you would depasture
they would depasture

Past Conditional
I would have depastured
you would have depastured
he/she/it would have depastured
we would have depastured
you would have depastured
they would have depastured

References in periodicals archive ?

One method was to depasture the stock in the alpine grasslands of the Snowy Mountains area, for those fortunate to hold land adjacent to this area.

Mapping Australia's transhumance: snow lease and stock route maps of NSW

Two years later, in September 1820, Macquarie gave John Howe permission to depasture stock on Patrick's Plains in the Hunter valley (Wood 1972:14) (Figure 1).

Beyond the limits of location: human environmental disturbance prior to official European contact in early colonial Australia

Those were indeed pioneering days, and and excerpt from the original land deed characterizes that era: "Persons riding with animals or traction engines or having wagons; may outspan, off-saddle and halt upon the land; and take water for such traction engines; and depasture and water any animals accompanying them; for a period not exceeding 24 hours excepting in cases of detention for longer periods due to weather swollen rivers."