Antonyms for pasture
ˈpæs tʃər, ˈpɑs-; -ˌlændpas·ture

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1. pasture, pastureland, grazing land, lea, leynoun

   a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock

   Synonyms:
   eatage, pasturage, ley, lea, pastureland, forage, grass, grazing land

2. eatage, forage, pasture, pasturage, grassverb

   bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle

   Synonyms:
   foraging, smoke, lea, gage, forage, green goddess, weed, grazing land, dope, herbage, sess, eatage, supergrass, skunk, pastureland, locoweed, pasturage, grass, pot, sens, ley

3. crop, graze, pastureverb

   let feed in a field or pasture or meadow

   Synonyms:
   crop, clip, snip, trim, cut back, graze, prune, range, lop, cultivate, work, dress, crease, rake, browse

4. crop, browse, graze, range, pastureverb

   feed as in a meadow or pasture

   "the herd was grazing"

   Synonyms:
   rove, vagabond, crease, dress, rank, ramble, clip, range, run, surf, stray, rake, browse, place, roll, trim, array, graze, cast, straddle, prune, wander, shop, grade, lay out, swan, tramp, crop, work, rate, cultivate, drift, cut back, snip, lop, order, roam, set out

How to use pasture in a sentence?

1. Larry Tabb:

   With the foreign banks backing away, it's become a greener pasture for some of the U.S. prime businesses.

2. The February report:

   The American Association of Equine Practitioners recommends one to two acres per horse2 and the Pasture Facility only consists of six acres, even at one acre per horse, the current acreage constitutes only 18.8 % of the recommended area for equine use.

3. Kahlil Gibran, Essay on Robert Frost, quoted in N. Y.. Times: Obit-Editorial, April 1982:

   Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.

4. Charlie Poster:

   Try to put yourself in the farmer’s shoes. It’s literally a federal crime. You could be watching your pasture and you could see a wolf killing your cattle, which is like watching someone at the ATM taking money out of your bank account, and you can do nothing to stop it.

5. Nagirasia Lengima:

   I try to learn as much as possible because after the rains we will move to faraway places in search of pasture.

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