graze
/ɡɹeɪz/ verbe C2En français : faire paître, brouter, paître, pâturer
- 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 · Prétérit grazed · Participe passé grazed · Forme en -ing grazing
Formes du verbe
- Forme de base
- graze
- He/she/it
- grazes
- Prétérit
- grazed
- Participe passé
- grazed
- Forme en -ing
- grazing
Dans la bibliothèque
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.
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.
The sun was just grazing the top of the oak.
There I was struck on the shoulder by a Jezail bullet, which shattered the bone and grazed the subclavian artery.
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