graze
/ɡɹeɪz/ verb C2- To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.
- To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture) · Cattle graze in the meadows.
- To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.
- To eat small amounts of food periodically throughout the day, rather than at fixed mealtimes, often not in response to hunger.
- To shoplift by consuming food or drink items before reaching the checkout.
- To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing. · the bullet grazed the wall
- To cause a slight wound to; to scratch. · to graze one's knee
- To yield grass for grazing.
He/she/it grazes · Past grazed · Past participle grazed · -ing form grazing
Verb forms
- Base form
- graze
- He/she/it
- grazes
- Past
- grazed
- Past participle
- grazed
- -ing form
- grazing
From the library
A DOE blind in one eye was accustomed to graze as near to the edge of the cliff as she possibly could, in the hope of securing her greater safety.
There I was struck on the shoulder by a Jezail bullet, which shattered the bone and grazed the subclavian artery.
At this moment the door of the house opened, and a large plate came skimming out, straight at the Footman’s head: it just grazed his nose, and broke to pieces against one of the trees behind him.
It's grazing-land and lumber-land and arable-land and mineralized-land, and just every sort of land that brings dollars to the man that owns it.
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