transitive verb. To permit animals to graze (vegetational cover) excessively, to the detriment of the vegetation.

verb. to graze land excessively, to the detriment of the land and its vegetation

verb. to allow animals to graze excessively

"One of the key features of digital commons - like free software or science - is that there is no tragedy in the classical sense: it is impossible for users to "overgraze" a digital commons in the way they can a physical one."