Sekirov Dictionary

graze

/ɡɹeɪz/

verb 8
noun 3
forms 5

verb8

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To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture)
- Cattle graze in the meadows.
To cause a slight wound to; to scratch.
•
To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing.
- the bullet grazed the wall
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To eat small amounts of food periodically throughout the day, rather than at fixed mealtimes, often not in response to hunger.
- Many people, however, snack and graze from roughly the time they wake up until shortly before they go to bed. — 2018
•
To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.
- He hath a House and Barn in repair, a Field or two to graze his Cows, with a Garden and Orchard. — 1732
•
To yield grass for grazing.
- 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. — 1627
•
To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.
- Shylock: When Jacob grazed his uncle Laban's sheep — 1596
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To shoplift by consuming food or drink items before reaching the checkout.
- Had the Grievant attempted to pay for the Mylanta or actually paid for it, then she would not be guilty of grazing or shoplifting. — 2001

noun3

The act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing.
A light abrasion; a slight scratch.
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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 […] — 1904

forms

grazed · grazing · grazes · grazeth · grazest

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