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Overbrowed vs Overbrowsed - What's the difference?

overbrowed | overbrowsed |

As verbs the difference between overbrowed and overbrowsed

is that overbrowed is (overbrow) while overbrowsed is (overbrowse).

overbrowed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (overbrow)

  • overbrow

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (poetic) To hang over like a brow; to impend over.
  • (Longfellow)
    Did with a huge projection overbrow / Large space beneath. — Wordsworth.
    (Webster 1913)

    overbrowsed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (overbrowse)

  • overbrowse

    English

    Verb

    (overbrows)
  • (ambitransitive) To browse (eat vegetation) too much, to the detriment of the environment.
  • * 1995 , David B Rockwell, Glacier National Park: a natural history guide
  • As their numbers peak, the hares begin to overbrowse aspen and other plants.
  • * 1999 , Allan Savory, Jody Butterfield, Holistic management: a new framework for decision making
  • The few elephants that remained continued to overbrowse the trees, now ripping the bark off them as well and speeding their demise.

    See also

    * overgraze