"impasture" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: impastures [present, singular, third-person], impasturing [participle, present], impastured [participle, past], impastured [past]
Etymology: From im- + pasture. Etymology templates: {{af|en|in-|pasture|alt1=im-}} im- + pasture Head templates: {{en-verb}} impasture (third-person singular simple present impastures, present participle impasturing, simple past and past participle impastured)
  1. To place in a pasture Tags: archaic, transitive
    Sense id: en-impasture-en-verb-JAt2WUm5 Categories (other): English terms prefixed with in- Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with in-: 52 48
  2. to foster. Tags: archaic, transitive
    Sense id: en-impasture-en-verb-YxBn29Hh Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with in-, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 17 83 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with in-: 52 48 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 22 78 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 14 86

Inflected forms

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