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overbrowsing

overbrowsing is the present participle and gerund of overbrowse.

Meaning of overbrowse

Verb

overbrowse (third-person singular simple present overbrowses, present participle overbrowsing, simple past and past participle overbrowsed)

  1. (ambitransitive) To browse (eat vegetation) too much, to the detriment of the environment.
    • As their numbers peak, the hares begin to overbrowse aspen and other plants.1995, David B Rockwell, Glacier National Park: a natural history guide

Questions about overbrowsing

What is overbrowsing the present participle and gerund of?
Overbrowsing is the present participle and gerund of overbrowse.

Words near overbrowsing in the dictionary

  1. overbrowns
  2. overbrows
  3. overbrowse
  4. overbrowsed
  5. overbrowses
  6. overbrowsing
  7. overbrush
  8. overbrushed
  9. overbrushes
  10. overbrushing
  11. overbrutal

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overbrowsing (page history and authors); overbrowse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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