Overbrowed vs Overbrowsed - What's the difference?
overbrowed | overbrowsed |
(overbrow)
(poetic) To hang over like a brow; to impend over.
(overbrowse)
(ambitransitive) To browse (eat vegetation) too much, to the detriment of the environment.
* 1995 , David B Rockwell, Glacier National Park: a natural history guide
* 1999 , Allan Savory, Jody Butterfield, Holistic management: a new framework for decision making
As verbs the difference between overbrowed and overbrowsed
is that overbrowed is (overbrow) while overbrowsed is (overbrowse).overbrowed
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(head)overbrow
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(en verb)- (Longfellow)
- Did with a huge projection overbrow / Large space beneath. — Wordsworth.
overbrowsed
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(head)overbrowse
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(overbrows)- As their numbers peak, the hares begin to overbrowse aspen and other plants.
- The few elephants that remained continued to overbrowse the trees, now ripping the bark off them as well and speeding their demise.