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Graze
Definitions
- 1 The act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing.
- 2 the act of grazing wordnet
- 3 A light abrasion; a slight scratch.
- 4 a superficial abrasion wordnet
- 5 The act of animals feeding from pasture.
"If it be sundown, when the herds are returning from their daily graze in the long grass of the jungle, clouds of dust will be marking their track along every approach to the village […]"
- 1 To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for. transitive
"He hath a Houſe and Barn in repair, a Field or two to graze his Cows, with a Garden and Orchard."
- 2 eat lightly, try different dishes wordnet
- 3 To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture) ambitransitive
"Cattle graze in the meadows."
- 4 scrape gently wordnet
- 5 To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing. transitive
"Shylock: When Jacob grazed his uncle Laban's sheep"
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- 6 feed as in a meadow or pasture wordnet
- 7 To eat small amounts of food periodically throughout the day, rather than at fixed mealtimes, often not in response to hunger. intransitive
"Furthermore, people who take the time to sit down to proper meals find their food more satisfying than people who graze throughout the day. If you skip meals, you will inevitably end up snacking on more high-fat high-sugar foods."
- 8 let feed in a field or pasture or meadow wordnet
- 9 To shoplift by consuming food or drink items before reaching the checkout.
"Grazing refers to customers who consume food items before paying for them, for example, a customer bags one and a half pounds of grapes in the produce department, eats some as she continues her shopping […]"
- 10 break the skin (of a body part) by scraping wordnet
- 11 To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing. transitive
"the bullet grazed the wall"
- 12 To cause a slight wound to; to scratch. transitive
"to graze one's knee"
- 13 To yield grass for grazing. intransitive
"The sewers must be kept so as the water may not stay too long in the spring; for then the ground continueth the wet, whereby it will never graze to purpose that year."
Etymology
From Old English grasian (“to feed on grass”), from græs (“grass”).
From Old English grasian (“to feed on grass”), from græs (“grass”).
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