0 to eat too much grass in an area or to have too many animals eating grass in an area, which damages the environment:
Cows will overgraze the area and keep new plants from growing.
We move the horses from pasture to pasture so we don't overgraze them.
It was the effect of overgrazing on the fells.
Pressures from overgrazing by livestock and fuel wood collection are also significant problems in the dry tropical forests.
Overgrazing can have a damaging effect on habitat, which we are anxious to arrest.
Sometimes lack of grazing and scrub control destroy an ecosystem; sometimes overgrazing does the same.
To date, three farmers have had their hill livestock compensatory allowances withheld in whole or in part as a result of overgrazing in 1995–96.
