graze
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[edit] English
[edit] Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɪz
[edit] Noun
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graze (plural grazes)
- The act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing.
- A light abrasion; a slight scratch.
[edit] Translations
act of grazing or scratching lightly
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light scratch
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[edit] Verb
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to graze (third-person singular simple present grazes, present participle grazing, simple past and past participle grazed)
- (transitive) To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.
- 1999: Although it is perfectly good meadowland, none of the villagers has ever grazed animals on the meadow on the other side of the wall. — Stardust, Neil Gaiman, page 4 (2001 Perennial Edition).
- (intransitive) To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture); to browse.
- cattle graze on the meadows
- (transitive) To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.
- (transitive) To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing.
- the bullet grazed the wall
- (transitive) To cause a slight wound to; to scratch.
- to graze one's knee
[edit] Translations
to eat grass from a pasture
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- Anagrams of aegrz
- gazer
