depasturing

Verb

depasture (third-person singular simple present depastures, present participle depasturing, simple past and past participle depastured)

1. (archaic) To eat up, consume; to strip.
   • Earth like the patient was whose lively blood / Hath overcome at last some sickness strong, / Whose feeble limbs had been the bait and food / Whereon his strange disease depastur'd long.1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XIII, lxxix
2. (archaic) To feed or pasture; to graze.
   • The butter, rich and yellow as the gowaned bank on which the milky mother has depastured, is probably taken directly from the churn.The New Sporting Magazine (volume 18, page 184)