Graze

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  • intransitive verb. To touch lightly in passing; brush. synonym: brush.
  • intransitive verb. To scrape or scratch slightly; abrade.
  • intransitive verb. To scrape or touch something lightly in passing.
  • noun. The act of brushing or scraping along a surface.
  • noun. A minor scratch or abrasion.
  • intransitive verb. To feed on growing grasses and herbage.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To eat a variety of appetizers as a full meal.
  • intransitive verb. To eat snacks throughout the day in place of full meals.
  • intransitive verb. To feed on (herbage) in a field or on pastureland.
  • intransitive verb. To feed on the herbage of (a piece of land).
  • intransitive verb. To afford herbage for the feeding of.
  • intransitive verb. To put (livestock) out to feed.
  • intransitive verb. To tend (feeding livestock) in a pasture.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To touch or rub lightly in passing; brush lightly the surface of: as, the bullet grazed his cheek; the ship grazed the rocks.
  • To abrade; scrape the skin from.
  • To act with a slight rubbing or abrading motion; give a light touch in moving or passing.
  • To eat grass; feed on growing herbage.
  • To supply grass.
  • To spread and devour, as fire.
  • To feed or supply with growing grass; furnish pasture for.
  • To feed on; eat growing herbage from.
  • To tend while grazing, as cattle.
  • noun. The act of grazing or feeding on grass.
  • noun. The act of grazing or slightly abrading; a slight stroke or scratch in passing.
  • noun. In gunnery, the point where a shot strikes the ground or water and rebounds.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To eat grass; to feed on growing herbage.
  • intransitive verb. To yield grass for grazing.
  • intransitive verb. To touch something lightly in passing.
  • noun. The act of grazing; the cropping of grass.
  • noun. A light touch; a slight scratch.
  • transitive verb. To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.
  • transitive verb. To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture); to browse.
  • transitive verb. To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.
  • transitive verb. To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing.
  • noun. A light abrasion; a slight scratch.
  • verb. To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.
  • verb. To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture); to browse.
  • verb. To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.
  • verb. To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing.
  • verb. To cause a slight wound to; to scratch.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. feed as in a meadow or pasture
  • noun. a superficial abrasion
  • verb. let feed in a field or pasture or meadow
  • verb. break the skin (of a body part) by scraping
  • noun. the act of grazing
  • verb. scrape gently
  • verb. eat lightly, try different dishes
  • Word Usage
    "Could neither graze nor pierce] [T: of change] To _graze_ is not merely to touch superficially, but to strike not directly, not so as to bury the body of the thing striking in the matter struck."
    cross-reference
    abrade  tend  
    Form
    overgraze  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    abrasion  eat  eating  excoriation  feed  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Blaise  Blase  Chevrolets  Hayes  Hays  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    verb-form
    grazed  grazes  grazing