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impasture

impasture verb: to place in a pasture.

Verb

impasture (third-person singular simple present impastures, present participle impasturing, simple past and past participle impastured)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To place in a pasture
    • to impasture cattle
  2. (archaic, transitive) to foster.
    • Adulterie[…] impastures griefe in his [man's] heart1618, Thomas Adams, The Diuells Banket

Forms of impasture

third-person singular presentimpastures
present participleimpasturing
past participleimpastured
pastimpastured

Origin of impasture

From im- + pasture.

Questions about impasture

What does impasture mean?
Impasture means to place in a pasture.
What part of speech is impasture?
Impasture is a verb.
What is the past tense of impasture?
The past tense of impasture is impastured.

Words near impasture in the dictionary

  1. impastoes
  2. impastoing
  3. impastor
  4. impastors
  5. impastos
  6. impasture
  7. impastured
  8. impastures
  9. impasturing
  10. Impasugong
  11. impatency

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