graze
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old English grasian (“to feed on grass”), from græs (“grass”).
Pronunciation [edit]
- Rhymes: -eɪz
Noun [edit]
graze (plural grazes)
- The act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing.
- A light abrasion; a slight scratch.
Translations [edit]
act of grazing or scratching lightly
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light scratch
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Verb [edit]
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
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 23
- But in that gale, the port, the land, is that ship’s direst jeopardy; she must fly all hospitality; one touch of land, though it but graze the keel, would make her shudder through and through.
- (transitive) To cause a slight wound to; to scratch.
- to graze one's knee
Translations [edit]
to feed or supply with grass
to eat grass from a pasture
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to tend cattle while grazing
to rub or touch lightly the surface of in passing
to cause a slight wound to
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