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| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | To graze land so heavily as to impair future forage production and to cause range deterioration. . Source: European Union. (references) |
| Continued heavy grazing that exceeds the recovery capacity of the community and creates a deteriorated range. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Overgrazing is used as the canonical example of the Tragedy of the commons.
See the following countries:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Overgrazing."
Crosswords: OVERGRAZING |
| Specialty definitions using "OVERGRAZING": Desertification. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Swaziland | Overgrazing, soil depletion, drought, and floods are persistent problems. (references) |
Mongolia | Most recently, with the rapid growth of newly privatized herds, overgrazing in selected areas also is a concern. (references) | |
Ethiopia | Ethiopia's agriculture is plagued by periodic drought, soil degradation caused by overgrazing, deforestation, high population density, and poor infrastructure, making it difficult and expensive to get goods to market. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "OVERGRAZING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 76.92% of the time. "OVERGRAZING" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 76.92% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (singular) | 23.08% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 13 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
overgrazing | 11 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "OVERGRAZING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | overbeweiden (excessive utilization of pastures). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ylilaidunnus (excessive utilization of pastures). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | exploitation abusive des pâturages. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | übermäßige Weidenutzung (excessive utilization of pastures). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | υπερβόσκηση των βοσκοτόπων (excessive utilization of pastures), υπερεκμετάλλευση των βοσκοπότων (excessive utilization of pastures). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | túllegeltetés. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sovraccarico del pascolo (excessive utilization of pastures), pascolo eccessivo (excessive utilization of pastures). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | overgrazingay sobrepastoreio (excessive utilization of pastures), exploração abusiva das pastagens (excessive utilization of pastures). (various references) explotación abusiva de los pastos (excessive utilization of pastures). (various references) överbetning (excessive utilization of pastures). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "OVERGRAZING" (pronounced ō"vergrā'zing) |
| 5 | -r ā' z i ng | paraphrasing. |
| 3 | -z i ng | abusing, accusing, advertising, advising, aggrandizing, agonizing, amazing, amortizing, amusing, analyzing, antagonizing, apologizing, appeasing, appetizing, appraising, arising, arousing, authorizing, blazing, boozing, bowsing, browsing, bruising, brutalizing, bulldozing, buzzing, cannibalizing, capitalizing, carousing, categorizing, causing, centralizing, characterizing, chastising, choosing, cleansing, closing, colorizing, commercializing, composing, comprising, compromising, computerizing, confusing, criminalizing, criticizing, cruising, crystallizing, customizing, decentralizing, decomposing, decriminalizing, deemphasizing, defusing, dehumanizing, demilitarizing, democratizing, demonizing, demoralizing, denationalizing, desensitizing, destabilizing, devising, diffusing, digitizing, disclosing, disguising, disposing, downsizing, dozing, dramatizing, easing, economizing, editorializing, emphasizing, enclosing, energizing, enterprising, equalizing, espousing, excusing, exercising, exposing, fantasizing, federalizing, fertilizing, finalizing, foreclosing, formalizing, franchising, fraternizing, freezing, fusing, galvanizing, gazing, generalizing, glamorizing, glazing, grazing, harmonizing, hazing, hosing, housing, humanizing, hydrolyzing, idolizing, immobilizing, immortalizing, immunizing, imposing, improvising, industrializing, infusing, institutionalizing, ionizing, ironizing, itemizing, jeopardizing, legalizing, legitimizing, liberalizing, losing, marginalizing, materializing, maximizing, memorizing, merchandising, mesmerizing, minimizing, misusing, mobilizing, modernizing, monopolizing, moralizing, musing, nationalizing, neutralizing, normalizing, nosing, oozing, opposing, organizing, overusing, oxidizing, paralyzing, patronizing, pausing, penalizing, personalizing, perusing, phasing, phrasing, pleasing, polarizing, politicizing, popularizing, posing, praising, predisposing, prioritizing, privatizing, proposing, proselytizing, publicizing, quizzing, raising, rationalizing, razing, realizing, reauthorizing, recapitalizing, recognizing, recusing, refusing, reimposing, reorganizing, reusing, revising, revitalizing, revolutionizing, rising, romanticizing, Rosing, sanitizing, satirizing, schmoozing, scrutinizing, securitizing, seizing, sensationalizing, sizing, sneezing, snoozing, socializing, specializing, squeezing, stabilizing, standardizing, sterilizing, stigmatizing, strategizing, subsidizing, summarizing, supervising, supposing, surprising, symbolizing, sympathizing, synthesizing, tantalizing, teasing, televising, temporizing, terrorizing, theorizing, tranquilizing, trivializing, unappetizing, uncompromising, unionizing, unsurprising, uprising, using, utilizing, vandalizing, verbalizing, victimizing, visualizing, warehousing, wheezing, whizzing, womanizing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-g-i-n-o-r-r-v-z" | |
-2 letters: organizer. | |
-3 letters: averring, gorgerin, orangier, organize, razoring. | |
-4 letters: agonize, angrier, earring, garring, gearing, grainer, granger, graving, grazier, grazing, groaner, ignorer, naggier, overing, overran, rangier, rearing, reaving, roaring, verging, vinegar, zeroing, zingare, zingaro. | |
-5 letters: ageing, agnize, arrive, earing, eringo, erring, gaeing, gainer, ganger, garner, garron, gazing, ginger, gorger, gorier, goring, govern, grange, graven, graver, grazer. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-g-i-n-o-r-r-v-z" | |
+3 letters: overorganizing. | |
+4 letters: overglamorizing. | |
+5 letters: overgeneralizing. | |
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