depasture

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  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.

词形变化

depastures present,singular,third-person depasturing participle,present depastured participle,past depastured past

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-der.
English de-
Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *péh₂sti
Proto-Italic *pāskōr
Latin pāscor
Proto-Indo-European *-tew-?
Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂?
Latin -tūra
Latin pastūra
Anglo-Norman pastourbor.
Middle English pasture
English pasture
English depasture
From de- + pasture.
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