pasture
/ˈpæst͡ʃəɹ/ verb C2- To move animals into a pasture.
- To graze.
- To feed, especially on growing grass; to supply grass as food for. · The farmer pastures fifty oxen.· The land will pasture forty cows.
He/she/it pastures · Past pastured · Past participle pastured · -ing form pasturing
Verb forms
- Base form
- pasture
- He/she/it
- pastures
- Past
- pastured
- Past participle
- pastured
- -ing form
- pasturing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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THREE BULLS for a long time pastured together.
She replied, “No, my friend, it is not for the pasture that you invite me, but for yourself, who are in want of food.”
He thus addressed him: “Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me.” “Indeed,” bleated the Lamb in a mournful tone of voice, “I was not then born.” Then said the Wolf, “You feed in my pasture.” “No, good sir,” replied the Lamb, “I have not yet tasted grass.” Again said the Wolf, “You drink of my well.” “No,” exclaimed the Lamb, “I never yet drank water, for as yet my mother’s milk is both food and drink to me.” Upon which the Wolf seized him and ate him up, saying, “Well!
Encased in the skin of a sheep, he pastured with the flock deceiving the shepherd by his costume.
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