graze

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graze (plural grazes)

  1. The act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing.
  2. A light abrasion; a slight scratch.

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graze (third-person singular simple present grazes, present participle grazing, simple past and past participle grazed)

  1. (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).
  2. (intransitive) To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture); to browse.
    cattle graze on the meadows
  3. (transitive) To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.
  4. (transitive) To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing.
    the bullet grazed the wall
  5. (transitive) To cause a slight wound to; to scratch.
    to graze one's knee

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graze

  1. singular present subjunctive of grazen.
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