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UK
/ɡɹˈeɪz/
]
[ US /ˈɡɹeɪz/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɹeɪz/ ]
NOUN
- a superficial abrasion
- the act of grazing
VERB
-
break the skin (of a body part) by scraping
She was grazed by the stray bullet - let feed in a field or pasture or meadow
-
eat lightly, try different dishes
There was so much food at the party that we quickly got sated just by browsing -
scrape gently
graze the skin -
feed as in a meadow or pasture
the herd was grazing
How To Use graze In A Sentence
- Cattle and sheep started to roam languidly towards the hill slopes where they grazed, mooing and baaing.
- The baboon would keep the goats together as they grazed during the day, giving alarm calls if it spotted cheetahs or leopards. Times, Sunday Times
- I felt that weird shifting movement and a feathery light object grazed my bare skin.
- A painful red stroke appeared on her chest as the sword grazed her skin.
- To successfully graze and grow yearlings, a combination of very high quality winter and summer grasses must be available.
- As he did so something grazed his face, oh so lightly, like the tremulous wall of a bubble. EVERVILLE
- For her fiftieth birthday Don built Rebecca a chicken tractor - a long wire enclosure on wheels that enables her to graze chickens along the rows of green manure forage.
- The amphipod Gammarus tigrinus exhibits a range of feeding behaviors, including that of macrophagous grazer and shredder, and predator / cannibal.
- The grassy slopes were grazed by apparently fearless and footsure sheep, and in parts the sheer cliffs were occupied by seabirds - fulmars, kittiwakes and auks.
- The word-play grazes against rhyme, the lilt of the language tilts readers into lineated juxtaposition. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed