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pastured

pastured is the simple past and past participle of pasture.

Meaning of pasture

Verb

pasture (third-person singular simple present pastures, present participle pasturing, simple past and past participle pastured)

  1. (transitive) To move animals into a pasture.
  2. (intransitive) To graze.
  3. (transitive) To feed, especially on growing grass; to supply grass as food for.
    • The farmer pastures fifty oxen.

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Adjective

pastured (not comparable)

  1. Raised in a pasture, as opposed being confined to a cage, barn, feedlot, etc.
    • If you can't find pastured chickens, the next best thing is to buy organic.2014, Tom Malterre, Alissa Segersten, The Whole Life Nutrition Cookbook: A Complete Nutritional and Cooking Guide for Healthy Living, →ISBN

Words formed from pastured

Phrases with pastured

Questions about pastured

What does pastured mean?
Pastured means raised in a pasture, as opposed being confined to a cage, barn, feedlot, etc.
What is pastured the simple past and past participle of?
Pastured is the simple past and past participle of pasture.
What part of speech is pastured?
Pastured is an adjective.

Words near pastured in the dictionary

  1. pasture roses
  2. pasture thistle
  3. pasture thistles
  4. pasture tick
  5. pasture ticks
  6. pastured
  7. pastured out
  8. pastureland
  9. pasturelands
  10. pastureless
  11. pasturer

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