depasture verb2 •(no longer used) 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 •(no longer used) To feed or pasture; to graze. formsdepastured · depasturing · depastures