graze
Meaning of graze
noun
- The act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing.
- A light abrasion; a slight scratch.
- The act of animals feeding from pasture.
- 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).
- 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 periodically throughout the day, rather than at fixed mealtimes.
- 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.
Information about graze
- The plural form of graze is: grazes.
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Hyphenation of graze
graze
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- graze is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
graze synonyms
Meaning grazing:
Meaning crop:
Meaning crease:
Meaning browse:
Translation of graze
- Spanish: pasto, arañar, pastar, pacer
- French: pâturage, griffer, érifler, brouter, paître
- Portuguese: pastos, arranhar, pastar
- Italian: pastura, graffiare, pascere, pascolare, brucare
Anagrams of graze
Words that rhyme with graze
raze, Solaraze, braze, unbraze, acraze, craze, scraze, Fraze, fraze, overgraze, Corraze, outraze
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